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...around to finding a backer for seven years. Then the late Joseph Errington, a Toronto engineer, listened for five minutes, took a chance. For $2,400 he and Cross bought up a lot of old claims. They drilled under the M-shaped lake, ultimately found at least three big ore bodies. Finding the ore was one thing, getting it out was another...
Story: 22 hungry actors are interned in a Manhattan hotel by a large unpaid bill. A backer appears with a check (rubber) and a protégée (Anne Jeffreys) who falls for The Voice. Even Sinatraddicts may gasp at the shots in which reluctant Mr. Sinatra and enthusiastic Miss Jeffreys practically reenact the Fall of Man in a telephone booth...
...sales came to a hushed pause during the concert. Shushed by indignantly reverent ushers, the fidgety fans sat in embarrassed silence, stretched their voices in relief after the sacred ceremony of music. Philip Knight Wrigley, backer of the League and chief matchmaker in its marriage to music, was solemnly enthusiastic. He has long been eager to try any scheme, however dignified, which might promote his Midwestern softball carnival...
Fresh from the factory, 500-wagon-red, self-propelled combines drove north with the wheat harvest last week. The roving harvest brigade was big news on the farm front. Backer of the idea was Joseph M. Tucker, shrewd U.S. vice president of Canada's largest farm-machinery manufacturers, Massey-Harris Co., Ltd. Tucker sold the War Food Administration and the Canadian Government on the idea of allocating to Massey-Harris enough engines and steel to build 500 of the self-propelled combines (see cut). The one condition: that Massey-Harris would sell the machines to operators who would agree...
Died. Dave Hennen Morris, 72, philanthropist, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, longtime friend and early political backer of Franklin Roosevelt; after long illness; in Manhattan. He made a hit with the music-loving Belgians when he arrived in Brussels with a violin case under his arm, soon won the friendship of violin-playing Queen Elizabeth. After four years of diplomacy, pince-nezed Ambassador Morris returned to his medical and educational philanthropies...