Credit bureau secrets raise privacy alarms in credit data network
Arthur R. Miller outlines how private sector credit bureaus collect and compile personal data from public records and interviews, often with harsh hearsay and biased notes. He highlights large firms Retail Credit Co and Hooper Holmes, questionable field practices, quotas, and potential harm to individuals’ credit and reputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur R. Miller
United States
Credit Bureau
Retail Credit Co
Retail Credit Bureau
Hooper- Holmes Bureau
Hooper-Holmes
Retail Credit
Church League of America
Elderly Morgantown widow mentors weaving at senior center
At 83, Mrs. Marvin Steel teaches weaving at the Morgantown Senior Center, traveling four days a week to instruct about 50 students over six years. A former librarian and minister’s wife, she moved from Tennessee to be near her son Dr Edward Steel, a University history professor, and embraces a life of teaching, reading, and friendship building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank M. Heaster
Marvin Steel
Nashville
Tenn
Ward Seminary
Morgantown Senior Center
Lewisburg
Edward M. Steel
University
Christine Sell
Don Eddy
Mrs. Steel
Friendship Manor
Tennessee
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
VPI
Wine Women and Song origins tied to German poet Voss
Reader asks origin of the phrase Wine Women and Song linking Vienna waltzes and Johann Strauss. Note German poet Johann Heinrich Voss coined a similar line. Also includes reflections on Mrs Steel and her pupils and a weaving anecdote about a retired engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrises
Satoshi Nii
Aki-gun
Hiroshimaa Ree
Vienna
Johann Strausses
Strauss
Johann Heinrich Voss
P.S
Just Between Us Service Honesty Choir Win Praise
Community notes highlight Mrs. Sara Lee recalling a Jeep camping shade oak near Moorefield and John Rosiak aiding a burst hose at a service station. The People's Chair choir promotes its Tell It Like It Is tour across West Virginia amid praise. Also mentions pets left in heat and bike theft concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sara Lee
Stewartstown Road
Moorefield
John Rosiak
John
Vietnam
Spruce Street United Methodist Church
West Virginia
Advisers recount LBJ push toward North Vietnam strike
Washington insiders contest the Pentagon Papers view and say LBJ secretly prepared escalation while publicly limiting involvement. On February 7 1965 after Pleiku, Johnson pressed for action with top aides and ordered the Joint Chiefs to ready the war machine while seeking a decisive joint incident to deter further attacks.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
North Vietnam
Lyndon Johnson
Pentagon
Joint Chiefs
U.S
Pleiku
Defense
LBJ
Saigon
Maxwell Taylor
A. Alexis
North
South Vietnam
Earle Wheeler
National Security Council
George Ball
Permier
Aleksei Kosygin
Hanoi
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Congress
Retail Credit Company
House
Subcommittee
Ft. Hood
University of Michigan
University of Michigan Press
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Dominion News
Mrs. Sell
IDA Beverage
Fairmont Road
Morgantown
Marion
Mason-Dixonland
Debbie DeMola
Louis DeMola
Dilliner
Richard Nader
Mary A. Abi-Nader
Masontown
DeMola
Holiday House
Monroeville
Pittsburgh
Marty Allen
Music Production Consultants, Inc
New York City
Rich
England
Taylor
Agaunt Robert McNamara
Defense Secretary
McNamara
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