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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Prince gave $500,000 to St. Louis' Washington University. Although he attached no strings to the gift, the university planned to name a building after him. It was while gathering biographical material on Philanthropist Prince that the crime-hunting Post-Dispatch came across the facts of his distant past-and decided to print them...
Letters of Protest. At week's end the Post-Dispatch, under the heading, "Dissent to a Story," printed several letters of protest. Example: "If Mr. Prince has paid his 'debt to society,' why then hold up his past to public opprobrium?" But beyond that, the paper was unmoved. "I really don't want to discuss the story," said Editor Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Said Managing Editor Raymond L. Crowley: "I think the stories simply speak for themselves." Indeed they did-but not so much about Frank Prince as about the Post-Dispatch...
Then tiny (5 ft., 89 lbs.) Handler Clara Alford, 51, went to work on Chik T'Sun (she calls him Gossie for short). A pair of round-eyed Chihuahuas, led by a tweedy woman, minced past on the urine-spattered floor, each bearing on its back a tiny knapsack loaded with a pack of cigarettes, matches and sunglasses. But nothing distracted Handler Alford. Squinting through the smoke of her Winston, she turned the Peke over on his back and began to brush the long hair on his. belly with strokes that soon had him wheezing in relaxed delight...
CONSTRUCTION BOOM totaling $670 billion over the next ten years is forecast by ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. Total will be more than was spent during past 35 years...
Last week Chairman Pruess offered another explanation: "The fantastic cost of exploiting and promoting the Esther Williams name and likeness." After estimating that the company had paid its glamorous president $607,000 in the past three years, Pruess announced that International's relationship with Miss Williams "no longer exists." Retorted Actress Williams from Hollywood, after pointing out that she had in fact taken less than the 5% a year due her to help out the company: "If a man can't provide a 5% payment on a $10 million gross to the person who is the whole reason...