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...WRIGHT Stonington, Conn...
Died. Griffith Baily Coale, 60, muralist and author (North Atlantic Patrol: The Log of a Seagoing Artist), marine camouflage artist in World War I, an official U.S. Navy artist in World War II; of a heart attack; in Stonington, Conn...
...Mitchell put his influence behind a hearty, handsome Wall Street banker named Prescott Bush,-who played first base at Yale (1915-17), likes to dance the polka with the Polish girls and join in singing "the old songs" at political rallies. Bush was opposed by starchy Vivien Kellems, a Stonington manufacturer, one of the few Americans who is far enough to the right to be considered patriotic by Westbrook Pegler. Vivien stopped the roll call when it reached 27 for her, 187 for Pres Bush...
...list of projects which he thought were "flagrant examples of pork." Bravely he argued that the country could get along without spending $7,500 to make bathing pleasanter at Palm Beach; $21,000 to improve navigation for the crabbers of Twitch Cove, Md.; $34,500 to improve yachting at Stonington harbor, Conn. He thought that $1.3 million for dredging the Detroit River would benefit no one but the Detroit Edison Co., and that $36.9 million to improve the Ouachita River in Arkansas and Louisiana was not justified. In all, he listed $840 million of projects from Prouts Neck...
...Some Bad Times." Until ten years ago, said Clarence Wimpfheimer, president of Stonington, Connecticut's American Velvet Co., there were frequent labor disputes and "I had some bad times with the boys." After a 16-month strike, Wimpfheimer adopted a profit-sharing plan for his 350 employees, all members of the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union. The company, which has had no work stoppage since then, last year paid $180,000 into profit-shares and pension funds, equal to 22% of each man's wages...