Word: walden
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Bill Ledford, editor of the weekly paper in Vidalia, Ga., popped into the Vidalia Chamber of Commerce the other day with an idea about a porcelain onion. He told Dick Walden, the executive vice president of the Chamber, that he had met an artist in Charleston, S.C., and that he harbored a notion to commission her to fire him up some onions. "She makes squash, beans, everything," said Ledford, a little excitement rising in his voice. "She even makes an onion," he continued, "but it doesn't look like our onion. It's not flat and squatty enough...
...market the artificial onion. The thing was, he explained, he wanted to put the registered trademark of the Vidalia sweet onion, a cartoonish character called the Yumion (sort of the Pillsbury Doughboy of the onion racket), on his product, and for that he needed permission from the Chamber. Walden said he would bring it up at the next board meeting, but he suspected Ledford "could bank on it." The editor bounded out, a happy...
They took hours to unload everything. At least one alumnus brought along a TV, apparently anticipating some dull moments in the action-packed schedule which lasts through post-Commencement hucksterism. But between carting the children to Walden Pond and the adults to prepaid boogies at the Metro, the smooth reunion organizers don't leave much room to reflect...
...members who were at last night's game. Walden Miller and Roland Hawes, have been following the Spartans since 1967. They took a three hour flight and are staying at the Copley until Sunday. Although they have only been to Boston once before, neither of them was particularly interested in seeing the sights--outside Bright, that...
Powers, however, defends Walden's promotion. He says that if Walden had remained in his job, instead of taking a three-year to hold his full-time union position, he would have been promoted anyway. "We weren't going to discriminate against him just because of his union work," Powers adds...