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Title: A Whole Lot of Entertainment Is Coming to Town
Description: Ad with illustration and photo for the never-built but nevertheless real estate award-winning Riverfront Village, a "shopping and recreational" center on the river front area.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Book

Title: People Need a Home
Description: Article about the Longfellow neighborhood, its land use diversity, and its cohesive forces, located between 25th, Troost, Wyandotte, and 31st Street.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Warts and All
Description: A study of people-watching and how city spaces are used by people on the street in Downtown and Midtown areas.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Book

Title: What Makes Charlie Run?
Description: Photos, interview, and biographical article about Charles Wheeler, Jr., mayor of Kansas City.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: KC Stars: Ace of Trumps
Description: Profile of Kansas City native and national humorist Goodman Ace, starting in Kansas City with the radio show "Easy Aces" in the 1930s and going on to write jokes and scripts for Jack Benny, Danny Kaye, Tallulah Bankhead, Fred Allen, Milton Berle, and Groucho Marx, as well as writing a regular humor column for the "Saturday Review" magazine, with photo and joke samples.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: City Windown Interview with Joseph C. Canizaro
Description: Interview with Canizaro, the real estate developer owning most of the River Quay project, discussing various business, zoning, and other issues.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Project Hi Blood: A Door-to-Door Fight against Hypertension
Description: Photos and article about "Project Hi Blood, a model out-reach program to locate and treat hypertension victims," especially poor blacks "throughout Kansas City, Mo., ghetto" and headquartered at "the new $2 million Wayne Miner Neighborhood Health Center in Kansas City." Photos and descriptions of prominent local African Americans involved such as Dr. Samuel Rodgers and Lucile Bluford.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City's Brain
Description: Article about information systems at the Kansas City Public Library and other area libraries, including the Mid-Continent Library, in the context of the "knowledge explosion" and a "new breed of librarians" using computers. Brief interview of "Harold Jenkins, director of the Kansas City Public Library," on this issue.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Book

Title: Pacesetters: "I Was a Sharecropper"
Description: Article about Luther White, a former sharecropper in Louisiana becoming the successful owner of D & H Tire Service in Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 1975-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

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