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Moppets at Work. Department stores and merchandising chains pledged no price lifts on present stocks. Organized buyers' strikes threatened in several cities, but failed to develop. But an unorganized one did, in miniature. In Phoenix, Ariz. tricycling vendors boosted their price of ice cream sticks by a penny. Result: moppets refused to buy. By the third day the price was back to a nickel...
...Captain Kathleen B. Nash, 43, of Phoenix, Ariz.; Colonel J. W. Durant of Falls Church, Va., whom Captain Nash had just married; Major David F. Watson of Burlingame, Calif.; and a prowling corporal who had discovered the cache under bottle rows of rare old wine. Both the Durants were on terminal leave...
Uncontrolled. In Phoenix, Ariz., Richard Sirmer hurled a bottle of lighter fluid at an annoying cat, tossed his flaming lighter after it, burned up the cat, burned down the house...
Love in Bloom. In Phoenix, Ariz., Wayne Flowers and Martha Trees asked for a marriage license...
...another, John and Anna Boettiger (pronounced Bot-igger) are determined to get back into publishing. Last week they bought the Buyers Guide, a Seattle advertising throwaway. They planned to make it over into a newspaper such as Hearst's Post-Intelligencer was during their un-Hearstian tenure. In Phoenix, the gradual conversion of the Boettigers' newly purchased Shopping News (TIME, March 11) was under way; they had changed the name to Arizona Times...