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Last Spring no camp could have had prospects more pleasing than Camp Zakelo, Maine. Its director was Isadore Zarakov, celebrated onetime (1925-28) Harvard footballer and baseballer. Two of its counsellors were Alton K. ("Al") Marsters, last season's fleet Dartmouth quarterback, and Alfred C. ("Al") Lassman, husky All-American tackle for New York University in 1928. But gloom filled Zakelo a month ago. It was announced that "Al" Lassman had taken a canoe out at night in rough water, that the canoe had capsized, that Lassman had drowned (TIME, July 14). Director Zarakov did not deny rumors...
...Alton Fruchter, Inc., Ohio
...arouse the ire of growers. This month Stabilization Corp. held its first annual meeting, reduced Mr. Kellogg to a vice president. Selected for president after a vain search among big grain men for a No. 1 executive was one George Sparks Milnor, an able, honest, small-scale miller of Alton...
...Over Alton airport, Columbia, Mo., halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City, last week, zoomed Harry Hammill, American Eagle salesman, and his wife in their plane. Roe Montgomery, field manager at Columbia, saw that the right wheel was hanging useless from the under carriage. Reckoning that the ill-fated plane was heading for Kansas City, he telephoned officials at the airport there to warn the flyers and prepare for disaster...
...Interstate Commerce Commission's plan, that it would shortly file a new application to execute the consolidation the Commission had mapped out for it. Roads in the Commission's B. & O. merger: Reading, Jersey Central, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Susquehanna, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton (½), Chicago & Alton, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville...