Collectors seek Franklin papers in unexpected places
The editors of a new Franklin writings collection find letters and documents scattered globally from a Milwaukee brewery to archives in Moscow and East Germany. The hunt reveals surprising homes for Franklin items, including a letter to his son-in-law in a Leningrad library and two Yale addressed letters at Karl Marx University. Collectors prize the thrill and knowledge, not just profit.
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Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Milwaukee
Leningrad
Moscow
Czechoslovakia
Karl Marx University
East Germany
Yale College
Building A Fortune From Tax Gimmick Stock Options
Harvard Law School Dean Griswold testifies that stock options create modern fortunes by letting executives buy company stock below market and sell later at market price. The profit escapes high income tax, potentially saving up to 50 percent in taxes. Critics call it discrimination while supporters urge incentives for talent. Congress faces whether to close this loophole.
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Dean Griswold
Harvard Law School
Griswold
Congress
Continental League Faces Hurdles in Bid for 1961 Debut
Branch Rickey leads the Continental League as it seeks to start by 1961 with six clubs. Competing leagues resist aid while William Shea urges congressional help. Cronin and Frick deny efforts to thwart the third league, but player availability and New York plans loom large in its fate.
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Branch Rickey
William ‘Shea
New York
Ford Frick
Joe Cronin
Cronin
Sporting News
Old-Fashioned Soda Jerker Echoes Dying Drugstore Era
Nostalgic reminiscence recalls the soda jerker as local hero at a bustling drugstore. He mixed ice cream and syrup with romance, sold perfumes and cigars, and presided over a fading past where a fountain served without tips.
Johnson Counts The House In 1960 Presidential Bid
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, a Texas Democrat, pursues re election to the Senate in 1960 while avoiding bold national campaigns. Support builds in Texas and Kentucky as northern liberals weigh civil rights bills to boost his presidential chances.
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Sen
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senate
House
Democrats
Johnson
Philadelphia
Midwest
Texas
New York
Chicago
Sam Rayburn
Kentucky
Earle Clements
Austin
Tex
Dear Abby Advice Column Demonstrates Teen Strife and Nosy Neighbors
Readers submit teen behavior issues and a domestic dispute over a guest in need of boundaries. Abby counsels on gentleness, calls for tracing mysterious phone calls, and advises resolving the conflict over a girlfriend staying in the home with practical steps and a book recommendation.
Women seek advice from Spartanburg publisher Dr Crane
A newspaper feature highlights Phil Buchheit of Spartanburg South Carolina as a civic leader and publisher who hosts large civic events and a Women Only clinic while collecting questions from local women on marriage parenting and personal issues. The piece notes his YMCA campaign and invites readers to write to Dr Crane for his booklets with payment.
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Phil Buchheit
CASE
Spartanburg
South Carolina
YMCA
Spartan
Stars Save For Tomorrow In A Lunar Influenced Outlook
The reading notes benign lunar influences helping solve recent problems and suggests simple solutions with inventive thinking. It predicts a day of fewer worries and hints creative pursuits and home interests stimulated by Moon-Venus aspects.
Social Security Rate Increase Set for January First
Employers and workers will see higher Social Security deductions as the 1960 rate rises to 6 percent with equal employee and employer shares. The maximum taxable earnings rise to 144 dollars this year and will climb further in coming years to support growing retirement payments. Businesses also face increased payroll paperwork and tax withholdings across federal and state levels.
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Uncle Sam
Congress
U. S. Treasury
Try and Stop Me EFINITIONS
A humorous dictionary style piece from 1988 by Bennett Cerf lists witty contrasts and ironic definitions of common terms. It presents playful takes on prejudice celebrity tree perfectionist and practical nurse with brief quips and a punchline about Lolita remarks triggering a voice from a senior.
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Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
Sugar and Cuba policy debate over state aid and escrow plan
The article argues the United States has subsidized Cuban sugar since 1934, paying above world price to Castro’s regime. It proposes options to stop the dole, pay world prices, or escrow excess funds for Cuban reparations, and criticizes State Department errors in recognizing Castro and his Humanismo movement. It questions who influenced the quick recognition and names Roy R. Rubottom Jr and Earl E. T. Smith as central figures.
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Cuba
United States
Castro
Fidel Castro
Humanismo
State Department
Raul
Humanismo Movement
China
Bureau of Inter- American Affairs
Roy R. Rubottom, Jr
Spain
Earl E. T. Smith
Herbert Matthews
New York Times
William A. Wieland
Office of
Foreign Service
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Health And Happiness And the Christmas Gift Dilemma
Discussion urges parents to model unselfish giving over receiving during Christmas. It argues children imitate parental sacrifice and should be taught to gift rather than receive, with guidance on saving, budgeting, and involving others in giving.
Former Athens Pastor Serves as Cruise Chaplain
The Rev. Fred E. Luchs former pastor of First Presbyterian Church Athens will be chaplain aboard a Homeric Lines cruise to Central and South America next month. He is pastor of the First Congregational Church at Ann Arbor Michigan and is the first American clergyman chosen for this cruise by the National Council of Churches.
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Fred E. Luchs
First Presbyterian Church
Central
South America
Mr. Luchs
First Congregational Church
Ann Arbor
Mich
National Council of Churches
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George W. Cranf
Stars
Sion
Sugar
Ceorge
Garry C. Myers
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U.S
Athens Messenger
Athens
SUN AY Messenger
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