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March of Progress. In Colorado Springs, Colo., the city council abolished the 36-year-old ordinance limiting the length of women's hatpins...
Like most winners of the West, Guthrie's Lije Evans would have been flabbergasted to learn that he was a hero. At 35, he was a big, easygoing Missouri farmer with a plain, heavy wife and an ordinary, gangling 16-year-old son, both of whom he loved. Like thousands of others, he had an itch to do better, to own a piece of the free and. fabulously fertile territory of Oregon, where a man could get a fresh start and his son could hope to do better than his old man. Evans captained the "On-to-Oregon" pilgrims...
Vocational Training. In Salt Lake City, officials learned that Forger Mearle L. Markely had whiled away his year in state prison by printing up bogus checks in the prison print shop...
Killian's was not the only store to discover that free flowers attract bargain-hunting females. In Manhattan, James McCreery & Co.'s department store holds an orchid day once a month, hands out 100,000 free blossoms a year. When Chicago's Spiegel, Inc. opens a new retail store in its widespread chain, it pins orchids on its women customers...
...planted and cultivated chiefly by a fast-growing company called Flowers of Hawaii. Founded by Hawaii's Territorial Senator William H. ("Doc") Hill with the help of a fast-moving Los Angeles florist named Graham W. Dible, F.O.H. has sold some 5,700,000 orchids since 1946. This year the company hopes to sell 6,000,000 vanda orchids (a small flower about 2½ inches long), and gross about...