Word: newark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the third-floor offices of the United Appeals campaign in Newark, N.J. every week walks a slight, elderly Negro woman. There she plunks down a dollar-sometimes four-and walks out again. Long ago, she "had the sickness," she explained one time, and some of the United Appeals agencies helped her out; she figured that part of her earnings as a houseworker should deservedly go back into the kitty. Her total contributions this year...
Beyond City Limits. Between the hard-won dollar from the woman in Newark and the resounding windfall in Detroit, the story was the same: some 2,000 communities in the U.S. last week were winding up their annual Community Chest and United Fund campaigns, which this year will top 1955's record of $340 million. The results attest to the resounding success of large-scale, organized giving, in which a single-fund appeal raises more money than was once raised for charity by a score of individual appeals.* Moreover, this new organizational know-how has brought millions of Americans...
Night to Howl. In Newark, Truck Driver Mrs. Betty Jean Johnson, a 200-pounder, was sentenced to two days in jail for brawling after she brought an alley cat into the El Morocco Bar, shared her drink with it, tussled with other customers who objected when the cat nipped their drinks, justified her behavior by explaining that it was National Cat Week...
...happened? Pigeon fanciers wish they knew. Ever since World War II, especially in Europe, there have been spectacular "smashes," but never have the disasters been so numerous and so wide spread. The International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers (2,800 members) held a convention last week in Newark and discussed the problem dispiritedly. Its president, John Inglis Jr., has lost 32 birds since August and has only ten left. He has no theory to account for the losses...
FRANCIS W. BRENNAN Newark...