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Citizens of all political complexions turned out for a down-with-H-bombs rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, but the oddest pair seemed to be Topeka's Old Republican Alfred Mossman London and the widow of the man who overwhelmed him in the 1936 presidential election, Old Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt. Landon, 72, and Mrs. Roosevelt, 75, obviously struck responsive chords with each other in their mutual endorsement of a "sane nuclear policy." Neither of them, however, joined a ban-the-bomb march after the rally. That was left to more militant demonstrators, such as Old Socialist...
Windfall? In Topeka, Kans., after spading a hole in his backyard for use as a tornado hideaway, Grist Haydon was visited by a deputy tax assessor, who placed a value of $150 on the diggings...
TRAIN TRIPS ON CUFF will be started for first time in U.S. railroad industry by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe on June 1. Passengers must pay 10% on minimum fare of $60, can pay off complete trips over periods up to two years...
...onetime (1928) Kansas commander of the American Legion who went on (1931-33) to be the state's Democratic Governor and later (1936-40) U.S. Secretary of War; by Helen Coolidge Woodring, 53, daughter of onetime Massachusetts Senator Marcus Coolidge; after 27 years of marriage, three children; in Topeka, Kans...
...thrilled I didn't really know what I was buying!" exclaimed a fluttery shopper after leaving a dress shop in Topeka, Kans. She had just been waited on by the newest of the store's dozen saleswomen: temporarily retired Cinemactress Gene Tierney, 38, off and on for several years a voluntary patient in private mental hospitals. Now an outpatient in Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic, where she spent eight months last year' Gene would not discuss her courageous venture in occupational therapy. But her boss allowed: "She's doing a beautiful job. And she certainly...