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...organization that could speak for retired teachers, she decided to become their spokesman herself. She traveled, all over the state and toured the country, by 1947 had lined up enough members to start the National Retired Teachers Association. Its mission: "To put dignity back into the life of the penniless former teacher...
...Gift of the week: $1,086,000 to Tuffs College from Medford, Mass. Manufacturer Harry Posner, a once penniless Russian immigrant who amassed a fortune by making collapsible boxes, now wishes to make "part payment of the debt we owe this land...
Soon after World War II, successful Artist Colin-who had started as a penniless Montmartre dauber, decorating bistro walls and menu cards-concentrated on serious painting. Last week Paris saw the result. Painter Colin himself was on hand in the gallery to explain the difference between his old and his new work: "Designing a poster is like writing a telegram. Painting a picture is like writing a letter...
...some who should be admitted but feel they cannot be spared from home, the clinic has an outpatient department headed by a full-time senior psychiatrist and staffed by 55 experienced psychiatrists who give two half days a week from their private practices. Fees range from nothing, for the penniless, to $2.50 a visit...
...dollar legs" (no kin to Author Temple Bailey, above); in Los Angeles. She first caused a sensation at the turn of the century in Weber & Fields musicals, wearing full-length tights and a plumed hat. At 63 she vainly tried to crash the movies, lived her last years in penniless obscurity...