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...pensions. Even the long-standing railroad plans faltered and had to be taken over by the Government.* When thousands of elderly workers finally realized the chilling fact that they would probably never find jobs again, a spate of fuzzy-brained solutions sprang up, e.g., the Townsend Plan, Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. (End Poverty in California). It was partially as a counterattack to them that federal Social Security-handled by the Government and paid for by both the employer & employee-was born...
...haired Brenda Carol and Beverley Lynn Townsend were born last November in the little hospital in the town of Tofield (pop. 800), Alberta, after a difficult, 2½-hour delivery. Dr. William Freebury had little hope for their survival when he saw that they were solidly joined (from the third rib to the navel), facing each other. A minister was called to baptize them when they were only ten minutes old. Their combined weight was 9¾ pounds...
...Charles Townsend Copeland is 90 today. The letters that appear in this issue recollect Copey's era. They are fitting tributes, apt words to wish a Happy Birthday...
...Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Roylsion Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emerlins, celebration his 90th birthday today. Copey, as he was known during his 36 years at the University, will spend the day quietly at his Concord Avenue home. His health forbids the elaborate observances that used to be held...
Copey also gave annual readings at the Harvard Club of New York. In addition, the Charles Townsend Copeland Association--a group of his former students--held a New York birthday dinner in his honor every year...