Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civic leader who headed the building committee that got Garden City's new Methodist Church translated from hope into brick. His wife Bonnie was active in the Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service. The Clutters' well-behaved, teen-age children, Kenyon and Nancy, were popular, straight-A students at the local high school. Both were scheduled to receive 4-H awards at last week's Finney County 4-H Achievement Banquet...
...raised him to archbishop in 1950 and apostolic nuncio in 1951. As the first foreign diplomat to present his credentials to the German Federal Republic in 1951, stocky, grey-haired Archbishop Muench became dean of the Bonn diplomatic corps. His easy charity and folksy Midwestern humor have made him popular. Once when Chancellor Adenauer admired a purple cape he was wearing, Muench said: "I'll see that you get something purple," promptly delighted the Chancellor with a necktie made of the same material...
Actually, the long menu was soon curtailed, since serving six radar-cooked foods quickly proved unfeasible. "We narrowed it down to the three most popular choices," Pittenger says. "We offered hot pastrami, ham and cheese,...I don't know what the other one was. All I ate was hot pastrami...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Schonberg, Variations for Orchestra; Rust, Viola sonata; Moussorgsky, Sorochintsy Fair; Gabrieli, Canzone; Potter, Variations on a popular tune; Mendelssohn, Piano trio...
...Madison Avenue's biggest agencies pays up to $1,000 for dropping a mention of a client on a high-Trendexed show. A Hollywood public-relations agency spreads word that for $500 it can get plugs into the scripts of one of the half-dozen most popular TV comedians. One Beverly Hills agency that specializes in placing plugs, Fishell & Associates, sends out to writers and producers a long list of "clients" that pay it for arranging a mention. Among them: Howard Johnson, Betty Crocker, Western Union, Wheaties, Diners' Club, Gallo wines, Playtex girdles...