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...wonder was that Wilma Rudolph could run at all. The 17th in a family of 19 children, Wilma had a series of crippling childhood diseases, did not walk until she was eight, and then had to wear a hightop, corrective shoe. By high school, Wilma had improved enough to become a four-year, all-state basketball player and to clean up in track. Now a junior at Tennessee State, Wilma is studying to be a teacher (average grade: B plus), has so little trouble winning races in the U.S. that she has sometimes slowed down in mid-sprint to shout...
...over to the White House for some strong campaign advice from another relative newcomer to politics who has won more votes than any other man. "Work, and know what you are working for,'' said Dwight Eisenhower. "You have got to do a lot of wearing out of shoe leather and ringing of doorbells...
...talked as though the rest of the nation wasn't listening, hinting broadly that trade protectionism could solve New England's industrial decline-an attitude quite different from the Democratic low tariff stance set by F.D.R. Said Kennedy in Manchester: "We can protect our textile and shoe industries...
Oftentimes the family was hard-pinched for money, and Mother Carrie frequently supplemented their income as a part-time waitress in the Coburn Hotel, as a clerk at the Green Brothers' 5 and 10? store or a pieceworker in a local shoe factory. There was never any lack of necessities, though, and in the tranquil years before the First World War, the Chase youngsters had a pleasant, homespun childhood. At Christmas the family went out in the country in George Chase's buckboard and cut their own spruce tree, decorating it with popcorn and cranberries and cheesecloth bags...
Died. Salvatore Ferragamo, 62, style-setting Italian shoemaker for women and the originator of the wedge heel, platform sole and nylon "invisible shoe," an apprentice cobbler at the age of 9, who eventually came to employ 600 craftsmen in three factories (including a $175,000, 13th century palace in Florence) hand-producing 60,000 pairs of shoes annually for a well-heeled clientele including Queen Elizabeth II and Greta Garbo; of a heart attack; in Fiumetto, Italy...