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...average of 77.6 m. p. h., on $16 worth of crude oil.* If Messrs. Budd had planned on getting to the Fair that day from Denver on one of Burlington's regular flyers, they would have had to entrain on the Aristocrat the afternoon before. Half an hour later, after appearing briefly on the stage of the Fair pageant Wings of a Century, history-making Zephyr shuttled over to the Fair's Travel & Transport Building for a summer's exhibition before being put in regular service between Kansas City and Omaha. She was a notable visitor...
...Aristocrats among Amerindians are the Creeks, one of the five oldtime "civilized tribes." An aristocrat among Creeks is Juanita Deere McClish. Plump, pretty, full-lipped, she is 5 ft. tall, weighs 88 lb., will be 12 years old next June. Her widowed mother, Woosey Deere, owns 160 acres dotted with oil wells worth $650,000. They live in a $45,000 brick house near Sapulpa, Okla. on a neatly landscaped estate equipped with a garage for their three expensive automobiles. At Bacone Indian College & School in Muskogee, Okla. last year Juanita met and loved Buster McClish, 18, a Choctaw farmer...
Last week Denver got what it has wanted for 75 years when Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy announced that after June11, it would extend the schedule of its crack Chicago-Denver Aristocrat through the Moffat Tunnel over the Dotsero Cut-off to Salt Lake City and over the Western Pacific to San Francisco...
...best apprentices too. Under Abbott Lawrence Lowell, scion of a rich and ancient Boston family, it could be argued that Harvard had become a "rich man's college." James Conant was born in unfashionable Dorchester, Mass., son of a photo-engraver. He has made himself an intellectual aristocrat. Under him Harvard's favored sons will be, beyond argument, the rich in brains...
...Hippolytns. Professor Sterlsky played the part of a Cossack. Fear has two main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin's efforts to deal with his political superiors, who appoint incompetents to assist him and interfere with his scientific researches; 2) the sad case of Amalya, a withered female aristocrat. Borodin makes Amalya his housekeeper while officials appoint her ignorant daughter-in-law his assistant. This coincidence brings together Amalya and her Communist son. At the end of the play, the son has lost his membership in the Party and, with old Amalya, sets off to become a mendicant. The part...