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...into the mining business through the front tunnel. Her father was a doctor who preferred mining to medicine, died leaving $23,000 debts and some dubious mining claims. So Dot went to work, first in a Seattle department store, then in San Francisco, then in Washington as a $30-a-week typist for the old NRA. In her spare time in the capitol she pawed through old mining records, finally traced her father's claims. That got her started. In no time at all she located most of his mines, ousted claim-jumpers, sold one mine to Baltimore...
Australian-born, 70-year-old General Carpenter was a $1.25-a-week printer's devil before he joined the Army in 1892. "My sole program for the Army," he says, "is religion-always hot, as General William Booth used to say he liked his religion...
...week's end the Ballet Theatre was doing the biggest business in its recent history and losing money hand over fist. Of its $30,000-a-week budget, only a fraction was coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit...
Commenting on the $400-a-week average of the summer term, Richard N. Swift, who is in charge of the drive, said, "The War Service Committee hopes that Harvard men will buy more War Bonds and Stamps than in the past, in an effort commensurate with the pace of the national endeavor...
...teens wrote a cycle of poems about Woodrow Wilson; once she ran away from home, and worked for two months making paper flowers for Dennison & Co. in New York; she has seen much of the world (two large exceptions: South America, Russia). She began her career as $20-a-week editorial assistant on the Condé Nast publications, and rose in three years to become managing editor of Vanity Fair. She is married to Henry R. Luce, editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; she has a daughter, Ann Brokaw, 18, by her first marriage to Socialite George T. Brokaw...