Writers Among Wor a's Eleantest People
New York AP column recalls varied talents and oddities from workers and thinkers. It notes teachers social workers clergy writers and athletes like Jesse Owens as among the happiest in their fields while weaving in humorous and cautionary anecdotes about language science and daily life observations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mal Boyle
New York
Russia
Jesse Owens
U.S
London
Mike Forrest
O. Henry
Munich College of Physicians
England
William Gibson
Anne Bancroft
Midwest
Polish Farmers Worry About Farm Production
Rain and a chill wind lash eastern Poland as floods cover about 100000 acres. Ewa Laskowska and her son Edward describe dire losses on their 4 acre farm with crops ruined and financial pressures from higher land taxes. They fear harvests may fail and productive capacity is strained at a time of broader shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Poland
Pol Lools
Ewa Laskowska
Laskowskis
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Moscow
Europe
Baytown Residents Win Insurance Honors in Equitable Campaign
Baytown area residents Mrs. Robert Hardesty and Miss Esse Taylor earned national recognition in Equitable Life Assurance Society's President's Month campaign. Hardesty, first in Texas and third in the South Central division with 52 applications totaling 250000 in life insurance, and Taylor, third in Texas and fifth in the division with 43 applications totaling 254000, were among the top five of 1000 participants. Presentations were made by Equitable VP Harold Rossman at a Shamrock Hilton luncheon in Houston. Both agents, with under two years in the company, previously earned honors in the April 1961 contest Palen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Robert Hardesty
Amy
Esse Taylor
Sterling
Loving Cops
Equitable
Harold Rossman
New York City
Houston
Hardesty
Texas
Taylor
Champion Paper Co
Robbers Take Wages Bag Despite Smoke Signal
IPSWICH England AP hooded thieves struck a brewery wage pickup as cashier Harold Cooper activated a snatch proof smoke bag. The bag emitted smoke but was seized by the robbers who fled in a getaway car with 3380 pounds in wages. The report notes an odd closing line about an anchorite.
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Ipswich
England
Harold Cooper
Cooper
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Mary
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Mark ‘Twain
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Clyde Jones
Ted
SEARS
Sellathon
Cobbler
Son
Gay
Tee
King Features Syndicate
KRAFT
Scicu
Bremmer
Rosedale
Sunkist
SUCED
Libby
Eugene Kramer
Associated Press
California
Far East
Pls
Laskowska
Laskowski
Odels Fabrics
West
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