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...Lower Depths. In Columbus, the Ohio Penitentiary News published an editorial denouncing intramural thefts of razors, shaving lotion, a Parker "51" pen, deodorant sticks, chopped ham, talcum powder, radio plugs, shave sticks and a pair of gloves, said: "We are appealing to each inmate to help eliminate these low-type characters that are in our midst...
...fiscal troubles of wealthy "Soapy" Williams (Mennen powder, shaving cream, etc.) arose partly because welfare legislation passed at his urging gobbles up a lot of revenue. But the immediate cause of the state's crisis is the recession. With Michigan hard hit by unemployment, especially in automaking Detroit, the 3% state sales tax brought in $43 million less than Soapy had counted on, and at the same time the state had to increase its total outlays for relief...
...seats in the soaring, powder blue La Ronde Room at Miami Beach's Fontainbleau (pronounced: fountain-blew) Hotel were filled with men in silk suits and women in mutation mink. Steak dinners were snapped up at $10 a plate; drink-hustling waiters peddled hooch by the bottle ("Ya might as well. Yer payin' for it"). Then the M.C. silenced the house with a simple announcement: "Direct from the bar of the Boom Boom Room [another Fontainbleau saloon] we bring you the vocalist, Frank Sinatra...
...Hampshire: Cannon (Franconia), 30-48 base, 4 powder, good-upper, fair to good-lower; Cranmore (North Conway), 30-48 base, 6 powder, good; Sunapee, 6-50 base, 8 powder, excellent but operation today doubtful due to drifting; Mittersill (Franconia), 15-25 base, 4 powder, good; Wildcat, 35-55 base, 8 powder, excellent...
Vermont: Big Bromley, 26-40 base, 10 powder, excellent, Mad River Glen, 55-75 base, 10 powder, excellent; Mansfield (Stowe), 50-72 base, 9 powder, good to excellent; Mt. Snow, 27-56 base, 17 powder, excellent; Smugglers' Notch, 49-55 base, 9 powder, excellent; Sugarbush, 50-70 base, 8 powder, excellent...