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...manuscript from Streit's agents, read them and decided that the reeling world might like to reflect on one man's suggestions for salvation. In New York and London, Union Now appeared in the bookstores and Streit's idea was launched. A modest 13,-ooo books were sold in the U.S. It was all the encouragement that Streit needed. The idealist was reborn...
Under the smooth promotional hand of Pillsbury Mills, Inc., 100 top amateur U.S. cooks competed last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in a $70,-ooo prize baking contest. With 100 electric ranges set up on the ballroom floor, the cooks-97 women and three men-donned aprons and went to work. All day, under the watchful gaze of judges, the hopefuls produced such culinary delights as golden glow cake, black & white pie and glorified cherry upside-down cake...
...speed of his climb. While talking to an acquaintance some weeks ago, Hilton answered the phone, listened for a moment, then crowed with delight: "I just made half a million today." He bubbled out an explanation that the stock of Hilton Hotels Corp., of which he owns 400,-ooo shares or 26%, had risen five-eights of a point, giving him the paper profit. Then he soberly corrected himself: "No, it was just about $250,000 at that...
Married. Michael Foot, 36, pamphleteering Laborite M.P., onetime editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard, now editor (with Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's wife, M. P. Jenny Lee) of the Weekly Tribune (circ. 18,-ooo); and Jill Craigie, 35, author-director-producer of documentary films (The Way We Live); in London...
This season his salary is around $40,-ooo, and he has an annoyance shared only by the most prominent young ballplayers: the gossip columnists keep trying to marry him off. Most annoying is a Winchell rumor that he is using his home-run cash to buy gold trinkets for Monica Lewis, radio's "Chiquita Banana" girl. He flatly denies the gift angle; he just has dates with her, as he does with Dancer Betty Bruce and Hollywood Starlet Peggy Nilsson. At week's end, the chief buccaneer of the Pirates was too busy trying to hit home...