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...roadblock. They had a more important problem-picking a name for their dream city. Neither wasted a moment considering any local Indian words. Massachusetts-born Asa Lovejoy insistently cried: "Boston!" Maine-born Francis Pettygrove stubbornly cried: "Portland!" Finally they tossed a big, old-fashioned copper one-cent piece. Petty-grove and Portland...
...Coconut Grove, Fla. George Washington Carver School for Negroes, says Alfred Parker, was also designed for "community needs." At night, the home-economics department can become a women's sewing center, and the workshops can be used by men. The school also contains a built-in model house, where the girls can run vacuum cleaners, make beds and learn how to cook. "Homemaking," says Parker, "is especially important, because most of the girls must find work as servants...
...shoe), because the word is French for creampuff dough and she used to run a pastry shop in Montmartre. After two highly successful months at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, and a record released by Columbia, Patachou is currently wowing them at Los Angeles' Coconut Grove. Her fans claim she is the biggest thing that happened in France since Mistinguette wore pigtails. What is so special about this ex-pastrycook? Part of the answer lies with her predecessors...
...expert diagnostician last week, and revived the old Hoover Commission on government reorganization. Summoned to Washington once more, Old Diagnostician Herbert Hoover, 78, was willing, if-not pleased. "I took this job against my better judgment," he told reporters. "I'm back here from the Bohemian Grove [a private camp in California], where I was having a good time." To assist Hoover on' the twelve-man commission, the President named an erstwhile political foe of the ex-President: James A. Farley. Other commissioners: Attorney General Brownell, Defense Mobilization Director Arthur Flemming...
...California building firm last week stole a page from auto dealers and announced a novel home-selling plan: trade in the old-model house for a new one. The Liberty Building Co., developers of a 3,500-home tract in what was once a walnut grove in west Pomona, offered to take old houses in trade from anyone who buys one of their new $15,000 houses...