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Accessory. In Putnam, Conn., when Mechanic Hector Cote explained to a woman motorist that she had been having trouble with her car because she had been driving with the choke pulled out, the lady said: "Oh, I thought that was to hang my pocketbook...
...sharp eye behind Vision belongs to Publisher William E. Barlow, 41, a personable promoter who persuaded about 27 investors to put up $750,000 to start the company in 1949. The biggest pocketbook behind Vision belongs to Board Chairman J. Noel Macy, of the family that controls a profitable string of nine dailies in New York's wealthy Westchester County. Barlow, who has steered through plenty of adversity of his own, will merge Tide's ankle-deep circulation (12,825) with the weekly Printers' Ink (circ. 32,231), another property in the wide-angle field of Vision...
...eventful decade. Astor turned his social awareness toward politics. The focus: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Hudson Valley neighbor he had come to like while Astor was a naval officer in World War 1 and Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. With open pocketbook, with amateur's enthusiasm, Vincent Astor backed his neighbor for New York Governor, for U.S. President, took F.D.R. cruising on his $2,500,000 yacht Nourmahal after the election (TIME Cover. April 9, 1934). End result: disappointment. When F.D.R. went farther and farther to the left, Astor could not go along, and soon...
...increase in gasoline taxes (from 3? to 4½?) would get a "pretty cold reception." On the spend-and-spend side was a bulletin from the Democratic Advisory Council (Averell Harriman, Adlai Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, et al.) that damned the budget provisions as "weak and inadequate . . . Pocketbook before people . . . Close to being a fraud on the American people...
...point of all this is not to criticize the public's attitude towards the Needy who suddenly appear at Christmas to prey on its pocketbook. Rather, it is to remind all of us that long after the trimming and decoration have been packed and stored away for another year, there will be so many people huddling, like Mrs. Bella H., in some dank basement apartment, waiting for their cataracts to finish the job, waiting for their hearing to go, waiting for their remaining teeth to rot away...