Pat Martin Keeps City Hall Calm on Eight Hour Shifts
Pat Martin, mother of three, works eight hours at the city switchboard handling irate taxpayers and everyday callers. She calms tempers before routing questions to City Manager Bill Donaldson or department heads, juggling family life with golfing swimming and bowling between shifts. The Kankakee Illinois native jokes a job may send her home sooner and admits some days are tougher than others.
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Jack Earie
Pat Martin
City Hall
Pat
Bill Donaldson
Gary
Jeff
Smitty’s Department Store
Clay
Rothway Hatcheries
Jodi
Kankakee
Ill
Margarita Wagner Builds Beauty Line From Kitchen Roots
New York based cosmetics entrepreneur Margarita Wagner says her products use soybean olive and almond oils and fruit and vegetable extracts with a non alcoholic preservative. A naturopath and self promoter she markets a line she developed after working with Elizabeth Arden Jacqueline Cochran and Harriet Hubbard Ayer.
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New— York
UPI
Margarita Wagner
Miss Wagner
Walter Drew
New Orleans
Sophie Newcomb College
Harriet Hubbard Ayer
Elizabeth Arden
Jac
Optical trick makes a room feel larger with color
A boxy room appears more spacious by painting one wall in a bright warm color as a focal point while the other three walls stay in a paler cooler hue. The contrast draws the eye and creates the illusion that the painted wall is nearer.
Exotic fare at Explorers Club dinner shocks guests
Chef Cleophus Griffin describes preparing iguana, polar bear, nutria and other exotic meats for the Explorers Club annual New York dinner. The menu mixes global dishes like mouflon, flying fox pie, and tiger-lily mushrooms, while guests sample unusual hors d oeuvres and sauces.
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New York
UPI
Cleophus Griffin
The
Explorers Club
Griffin
Club
Lowell Thomas
Col
John Glenn
Wernher von Braun
Charles A. Lindbergh
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Cleopatra
Queline
Cochran Cosmetics
Titchin Fabrics
Old Scottsdale Rd
Scottsdale
Scottsdale Daily Progress
Govway Cleaners
Daily Sun
E. McDowell Rd
E. Belleview
Granite Reef
FBI
RAY. Lumber
S.old Scottsdale Rd
Women of the Progress
Australia
New Guinea
Malaya
Borneo
Easley
S.C
Europe
Ward Randol
Randol
Vicon
R. Nelson Miller
E. 4Th St
Cindy Cooper
Arcadia
Ias Mall
Thomas
Hall
Papago Plaza Center
Scottsdale & McDowell Rds
Judson
Lincoln Drive
Mockingbird Lane
David Wick
Judson School
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