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...contribute heavily to charities and tend their investments,, lodge officials have bumped up against a discouraging fact of 1957: the old prestige and royal good fellowship just aren't there any more. Evidence: fewer than 15% of the nation's joiners, whether Odd Fellows. Shriners, Eagles or Woodmen, bother to show up for lodge meetings, except on rare special occasions, e.g., a New Year's Eve party. Explains a once-earnest, now-backsliding Chicago businessman-joiner (Masons, Maccabees, Woodmen of the World): "I know I should attend. But all of a sudden, on a lodge night...
...Among the deals: Manhattan's Western Union Bldg. to Omaha's tax-exempt Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, for $12.5 million; Philadelphia's Lit Bros. store to the University of Pennsylvania, for $3,000,000. Wheat Farmer Thomas D. Campbell's huge Montana ranch to the U.S. Wheat Corp. of Omaha, owned by a Catholic foundation...
...Barn Dance goes on the air at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.), is sponsored in pieces of 15 minutes and more by Alka-Seltzer, Keystone Steel & Wire Co. (fences), Murphy Products Co. (poultry and livestock feeds), Woodmen Accident Co. (insurance), Edward Funk & Sons (hybrid seed corn...
...Quintet; Columbia: 4 sides). Kulturbolschewik Hindemith, in one of his earlier and lighter moods, wrote two ironic little suites for small ensembles, called them "Little Chamber Music, No. 1 and 2." No. 2, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, is deftly tootled by a new group of Holly-woodmen...
...Crimson Jayvees jumped into the lead in the early stages of the game but were unable to hold it in the second half. Moving along rapidly after a 20 to 20 tie at halftime, the Newport boys piled up a large margin which the Woodmen could not overcome. Bill McSweeney and Fran Simpson paced the Crimson attack with nine and eight points respectively, but Campbell of the visitors stole top scoring honors with nine baskets...