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Anne F. DiCioccio Croton-on-Hudson...
...satisfactory number of customers, the company is again raising its prices. For example, James Palmer, supermarket-stock analyst of Wall Street's Bregman Securities Co., reports that last fall A. & P. began hiking its prices substantially in the Midwest and Northeast. A recent comparison-shopping survey by the Croton Consumer Action Organization in New York's Westchester County found that a pound of Oscar Mayer bacon cost $1.39 at A. & P. v. $1.19 at Grand Union; a 9-oz. package of Birds Eye frozen green beans, 33? v. 31?; Kraft mayonnaise, 63? v. 69?; 5 lbs. of Florida...
...Jones supposes in all apparent innocence, undertake a hunting and fishing trip up the Hassayampa River. It is "a burly stream with its share of trout," which-what's this? -"rises in northern China, meanders through an Indian reservation in central Wisconsin, and empties finally into Croton Lake not a mile from where I live in southern New York State." The novel's epigraph, the reader notes with a sense of having been sandbagged, is a whimsy of the trout-fishing sage, Sparse Grey Hackle, who says that the water of the Hassayampa "renders those who drink...
Died . George Biddle , 88 , portrait painter and muralist who in 1933 helped found the WPA art project that lasted through the 1930s and provided work for such artists as Jackson Pollock, Reginald Marsh and Willem de Kooning; in Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. A Harvard-trainedlawyer whose brother, Francis Biddle, was U.S. Attorney General from 1941 to 1945, Biddle turned to art when he was 26, and became best known for the frescoes he painted in the Department of Justice building in Washington
Today the company has offices in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., plants in the U.S. and Canada and 350 employees. It also has two other profitable lines: the $12 to $20 Backpack baby carrier and the $40 Playcrib combination crib and table that folds up like a suitcase. Last week the company expanded with the introduction of a larger folding stroller and the acquisition of the juvenile lamp division of Universal Lamp...