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...Apple Valley, Calif., a $16,000 "Appreciation House" was put up in 45 hours by volunteer workers, equipped and furnished by volunteer merchants, and turned over to Jet Ace Captain Joseph C. McConnell, his wife and three children as a neighborly thank-you for his 106 Korean war missions and 16 MIG kills...
...wanted him to turn his program into a less expensive contest show. Garry fought the network and won, with the backing of his only sponsor at the time, Stokely-Van Camp (canned goods). On the air, he told his TV audience all about it and asked them to write thank-you notes to the sponsor...
Slight, gentle Pediatrician Schick, 75, childless himself, has treated tens of thousands of children in Vienna and (since 1923) in New York City, still commutes by subway from his Manhattan home for office hours in Brooklyn. More than the medals he has received he treasures a thank-you book signed in 1933 by a million New York City schoolchildren. Yeshiva's new million-dollar department of pediatrics is to be named for Dr. Schick. His most enduring monument: the test which helps to save lives...
...United Negro College Fund wrote the Council a thank-you note for its help. "We didn't read the letter carefully, Beveridge explained. "We thought it meant Harvard was supporting the Fund this year." This supposition was aided by the Council president's admitting to a Y.P. member that the money was again going to the segregated "United Negro College Fund...
...went off to Italy on a vacation in 1951 and, while there, bought a cigarette case for Harry Truman. "I didn't know whether he smoked, dipped or chewed," the witness volunteered (the President does not use tobacco in any form). But the gift won him a presidential thank-you note which began informally, "Dear Lamar," and he admitted that "I thought I was makin' some time." That was less than three weeks before the roof fell...