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When the Danforth Foundation (set up by the Ralston-Purina Company) offered to help fund the Whitehead Fellowships, the Ed School was confident of getting additional money from the Federal government, Sizer said...
...hooks into Symington. Danforth is a liberal and is regarded as the best Republican vote getter in the state. About the strongest criticism he has of Symington, however, is that he failed to oppose the war early enough. Danforth is running an expensive (he is heir to the Ralston Purina cereal fortune) and active campaign, but without issues it has been a uphill fight. It will be a major upset if he unseats Symington...
...variety of new products, services and jobs is growing up around the thriving catfish industry. Ralston Purina and other manufacturers have developed special catfish foods. Several firms are experimenting with pumps, mechanical feeders and harvesters, and there is a race to develop the best machine to behead, skin and eviscerate catfish. "Chip" Farmer and his neighbors in Dumas, Ark., have opened the nation's first catfish-processing plant, a cooperative that will package 900,000 Ibs. of fish this year. Restaurant chains specializing in farm-grown catfish are opening up in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. In time, the taste...
...says Morris Levinson, president of Associated Products, which sells Rival. "To help solve the guilt feelings, they want to feed their pet better-like themselves." "Who knows what greatness lives in the heart of a dog? We do," runs the TV commercial for General Foods' Gaines Gravy Train. Purina notes in its advertising: "All you add is love...
...buying pet food; supermarkets now offer her some 124 canned, dry or semi-moist varieties from which to choose. Most companies test their products on their own cats and dogs. At its pet-care center near St. Louis, for example, some 450 dogs and 250 cats slurp and chew Purina pet foods. Sniffing a trend toward "gourmet" dishes for discriminating dogs, Voila Foods for Pets, Inc., was founded this year to market burgundy beef in gravy and beef-kidney stew...