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...Townsendites met in Washington's 5,000-seat Uline Arena. The meeting got off with a whoop when two exuberant ladies saw California's placid, lantern-jawed Dr. Townsend, the 80-year-old founder, entering the jammed hall. They jumped up and began to chant...
Last week Mrs. America, an Ohio brunette with four children (TIME, Nov. 25), decided after all to give up the prize money and cross-country whoop-te-do and stay home with the kids. So now Mrs. America was Mrs. Fredda Acker, a South Carolina redhead (with just one child), who had been judged second best. She said she was thrilled...
...welcomes in South America. The pair were flying Power's plane in a good-will tour of their own, down the west coast and over the heaven-puncturing Andes to Argentina. In Santiago crowds choked the streets outside the actors' hotel. But Romero missed some of the whoop-te-do: somehow he had lost his footing in another hotel, back in festive Peru, and now lay abed with a cracked elbow...
California's mushrooming clothing industry had plenty to back all of this whoop and hurrah. Last year the industry (No. 4 in the state) did a business of $320,000,000, up almost 500% over 1939. This year it expects to gross $400,000,000, making it even with Chicago as the nation's second biggest fashion center. Some sunny Californians predict that California's dress business will zoom in a few years to a round billion, not far behind New York's, biggest in the world...
...Rastus" Corning is a captive of Albany's notorious O'Connell machine, but the convention stage managers built a whoop-it-up show around him, paraded him, Jim Mead and dignified Herbert Lehman around the hall in red jeeps, got set to make a drive for the veterans' vote...