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...Powell is sifting through the suggestions. At least one idea is already being given serious consideration: a toll-free phone line to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on which people could ring up the White House for help in solving whatever problems they have with the Government. The proposer, William Forhan of Tracyton, Wash., also suggested that the number should be an easily remembered acronym: PEANUTS...
...range to include sailboats. In 1938 Stone made sure that his magazine would always have solid backing by getting such famed yachtsmen as Pierre S. du Pont III, Henry S. Morgan, R. J. Reynolds and 17 others to join him in buying the magazine from John Clarke Kennedy (Forhan's Toothpaste), who ran it as a hobby. The present owners, said Stone, merely want "to see that it always remains a magazine for the sport." Publisher Stone feels that profitable Yachting has done a lot to make the sport more popular. But magazines have their limitations. Says...
Died. Evangeline Adams Jordan, 59, famed astrologer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. She had predicted that she was in "a period of adverse aspects and conditions." Author, radio broadcaster (Forhan's Toothpaste), charging $20 an appointment, she took in about $50.000 a year. Famed forecasts: death of England's King Edward VII ("The stars would be grievously afflicted"), death of Tammany Leader Charles Francis Murphy of acute indigestion ("Unfriendly stomach"). Col. Theodore Roosevelt's defeat by Alfred Emanuel Smith for 1920 New York Governor ("He couldn't be elected to the school board in his native village of Oyster...
Other Zonite products include Forhan's toothpaste, Zonite antiseptic, ointment and suppositories, Argyrol, Ovoferrin and Agmel tonics, spraying and rinsing Larvex. The company has assets of $2,000,000, last year earned $953,000 against $750,000 in 1930 despite a 4% drop in sales volume. The showing delighted Broker Edward F. Hutton, chairman of the board, who is said to regard Zonite as his "pet company." It also pleased such directors as Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Colby M. Chester Jr., Herbert Bayard Swope and Hunter Sylvester Marston...
Divorced. Richard Joseph Forhan, toothpaste manufacturer ("Four Out of Five") ; from Julia Anne Forhan; in Reno. Grounds: continuous quarreling...