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...Francis J. Gerty, director of the department of mental health, plans to spend $50 million on eight "hospital clinics." They will be so distributed that no one in the state will have more than a two-hour drive to reach one: two in Chicago, one each in Centralia, Peoria, Springfield, Harrisburg, Rockford and Decatur-Champaign...
...research-minded Interpublic Inc. pursues the sociological bent of indefatigable Marion Harper, a complex Ivy Leaguer, while Chicago's Leo Burnett Co. reflects the down-to-earth outlook of Founder Burnett, a Michigan small-town boy who once worked as an $18-a-week reporter for the Peoria Journal. Other agencies, such as New York's J. Walter Thompson and Philadelphia's N. W. Ayer & Son, are true corporate enterprises, scarcely different in spirit from General Motors or Procter & Gamble. Among them, the top agencies employ almost as many different techniques of advertising as they do receptionists...
...Broadway-Dirksen's strict, God-fearing mother did not take kindly to the idea of her son becoming a professional actor. Dirksen therefore hitched his wagon to a political star. He announced for city finance commissioner in 1926 and won. Four years later, he decided to run against Peoria's incumbent Republican Congressman, William E. Hull. One key issue: the importation to the U.S. of blackstrap molasses, a vital question for Pekin's corn-processing and distillery businesses. Ev lost, but on the day after election he began campaigning for the 1932 primaries. He castigated Hull...
...women have no further interest in or knowledge of what makes the car go. When something goes wrong, all they know is that the car is making "a funny noise." At the start of a new bumper-to-bumper touring season, Auto Repairman Frank Burwell of Peoria, Ill., who recently won a nationwide contest for mechanics conducted by Chrysler, has compiled a handy glossary of auto talk for the mechanically unsophisticated...
...Other TV stations scheduling the lecture series: New York's WNEW, Kansas City's KMBC, Peoria's WTVH, Decatur, Ill.'s WTVP, Sacramento's KOVR...