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...years, quietly and unsung, workers at the tiny P. & P. Chair Co. in Asheboro, N.C., have turned out rocking chairs for a limited clientele, mostly old ladies and pensioners. Then word got out of a more famous customer: President John F. Kennedy, who has installed a P. & P. chair in his White House office and rocks as he chats with visitors. Last week the creak from Kennedy's rocker was being heard from Maine to California, and thousands of Americans, from housewives to executives, scrambled to buy "a Kennedy rocker" from...
...Drafted two years ago by Baltimore, Brown is hailed as "big, fast and mean." Pottios is highly rated because he "can play either offense or defense, which makes him a good risk for the pros." The pros are also after Virginia Tech's unsung Mike Zeno, 21 (5 ft. 11 in., 240 Ibs.), but dismiss the chances of Colorado's Joe Romig, who made the first team of the United Press International's All-America. Says one scout: At 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs., "Romig is just too small to play anywhere...
King was an unsung hero all year at halfback. He was a scrappy, tough defensive player and became increasingly dangerous on the attack as the season progressed...
...Unforgettable Loneliness. In 1915, when she was teaching art in Amarillo, Texas ("My country-terrible winds and wonderful emptiness!"), Georgia sent some of her charcoal sketches to a friend in Manhattan. The friend in turn took them to Photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who had opened a gallery for unsung artists. Stieglitz was so impressed that he began hanging O'Keeffe paintings alongside his Braques and Marins, and eight years later he and Georgia were married. The partnership lasted until his death in 1946, when the spotlight had already begun to shift to a wilder and more chaotic kind of abstraction...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Our Unsung Villains eulogizes the great heavies of Disneyland-Captain Hook, Br'er Fox, the Big Bad Wolf, the Wicked Queen. With Hans Conried...