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...crisis in Little Rock was open to immediate doubt. Arkansas does not have a record of racial violence: the state university at Fayetteville was quietly integrated in 1948; during the very week that Little Rock was supposed to explode, three other Arkansas communities-Ozark, Fort Smith and Van Buren-integrated without a murmur. Furthermore, bus integration is a statewide fact, and Little Rock's white and Negro citizens have become accustomed to their Negro policemen...
...Columnist Abigail Van Buren a wife complained about her moonlighting husband, who was "gone all day and three or four nights a week; leaving the whole responsibility of raising the family on the mother. When the man is home nobody dares to open a mouth because he is tired and grouchy. If these men would get used to living on one paycheck and spend more time with their families everyone would be better off." Abby agreed...
...questions, got all the answers and carried the deadlock to $2,000 a point. On a question about the six Vice Presidents of the U.S. who went on to be elected to the presidency, both minds clicked along the same track of thought, got three chronologically (Adams. Jefferson, Van Buren), jumped to the latest-Harry Truman-then to Coolidge and then agonized for a while before naming Teddy Roosevelt. Van Doren, who risks losing $42,000, perhaps even more, of his big pot, was beginning to chafe at the tension: "It's like a full house in a poker...
...hours, Popo Phillips was back with her own replies to more than 70 lonelyheart letters. Their crisply confident style so impressed the editors that she returned the same afternoon to sign a contract to write six columns a week for the Chronicle under the pen name Abigail Van Buren. also landed a ten-year contract with the McNaught Syndicate. As she was leaving the Chronicle, Editor Arnold remarked to Popo Phillips that her witty, worldy replies to the letters reminded him of Ann (Your Problems) Landers, heartthrob star of the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate. "They ought to," rejoined Popo...
Deliberate Satire? Last week as Popo, 38, celebrated her first birthday as Abby Van Buren, she was the fastest rising lonelyheart columnist in the U.S. So quickly has her Dear Abby column caught on that it now appears in some 80 U.S. newspapers, from New York's garter-snapping Daily Mirror (circ. 842,023) to the sobersided Portland Oregonian (181,910), only a dozen fewer syndicate clients than carry sister Ann Landers, whose real name is Mrs. Jules ("Eppie") Lederer. This makes Abby the fourth-ranking U.S. lovelornist, after Dorothy Dix, Mary Haworth and Ann Landers...