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...Republic box score, paste it up on a dummy of its own sports page and then photograph and engrave the whole page. A very useful trick for a small, struggling daily without much money to spend. But the Republic's Gianelli decided to fix the American's wagon. So into one box score he inserted a damning phrase-REPRINTED FROM REPUBLIC. Sure enough, it came out that way in the American that same afternoon...
...simple--"You'll find no lace or ruffles here." Again this spring she's showing shifts along with the newer looking A-line skimmers and fitted dresses. Her hottest number: the essential linen skimmer ($15) in black, blue and putty, too. Mrs. Bragar does not "get on the band wagon with the Marimekko jazz" and subscribes to a delightful sartorial inverse snobbism...
...since the day in 1951 when he quit the United Press after nine years as congressional reporter. He was going to work for the junior Senator from Texas, Reedy told friends, "because Lyndon Johnson is going to be President some day and I'm hitching my wagon to that star...
Died. Thomas Winston Briggs, 77, founder and president of Welcome Wagon International, who in 1928, out of "a desire to contribute to human happiness," first set Welcome Wagon hostesses to dropping in on newcomers in town with baskets of gifts from local merchants, a system so beneficial to trade that Briggs extended the system to 2,000 U.S. and Canadian cities, collected fees from merchants (at $10 to $30 a basket) that in the last decade alone came to well over $100 million; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Accidental Inspiration. Detroit's most different auto was presented last week by General Motors, which so far has announced no plans for its own sports car. In the first major station-wagon styling change in twelve years, G.M. introduced new Buick and Oldsmobile models with novel roof lines that look as if the wagon had been crossbred with a Greyhound Scenicruiser. G.M. engineers raised the rear two-thirds of the wagon roof by four inches, installed long narrow windows in the front and on the sides...