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High among the nonfiction bestsellers were books of personal uplift and personal adventure, advice on golf, a couple of cartoon collections, Dr. Kinsey on the human female, and the life story of an unabashed bordello keeper who could probably tell Kinsey a thing or two, Polly Adler's A House Is Not a Home...
...Chicago, the Admiral Corp., discovering that scores of Great Lakes freighters are now equipped with TV sets, reported that ships can steam 986 miles from Buffalo to Duluth, Minn, with "relatively few non-TV reception areas." Uplift note reported by Admiral: Great Lakes sailors are so entranced by TV that they no longer "have to go ashore to seek entertainment...
...head first the U.S. Eastern Territory, then all 225,000 Salvation Army members in the U.S. Nominated to lead the worldwide organization in 1946, Old Campaigner Pugmire turned down the offer because of an ailing heart, continued to direct the annual spending of more than $18 million to uplift America's wayward and comfort her poor...
...canned for export) and sleek Guernsey cattle. Relatively speaking, he is a liberal. That is to say, he thinks the whites should run Kenya with only a junior position for the Indians and the Africans (each of whom outnumber the whites). But at the same time he believes in uplift for the aborigines...
...manly man. She bemoans woman's sad and pitiful plight, but forgets that it was a woman who lost Mark Antony the world, laid old Troy in ashes, clipped Samson's mighty locks, and has been clipping men ever since. She says "woman's uplift has barely begun." Speaking as a lone man who grew up in a family of aunts, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, mothers, and now a wife and daughter, I can tell De Beauvoir that woman's uplift has been going on for a long time. BILL STALNAKER Houston...