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...facts about Andrew Mellon, other than his fortune, were exceedingly simple. Born at Pittsburgh in 1855, he was the son of a hard-headed Tyrone County Scotch-Irishman who -"ounded the banking house of T. Mellon & Sons. At 18, Andrew quit Western University of Pennsylvania to start a lumber business with his 15-year-old brother, Dick. When the lumber business succeeded, first Andrew and then Brother Richard joined the bank, which they built into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital...
...failed when in the summer of 1587 some 120 settlers under Governor John White landed at stout little Fort Raleigh, on the northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White's daughter, Eleanor Dare, bore her husband Ananias, a daughter who was christened Virginia, first child born to English parents in the present U. S. Virginia Dare was nine days old when Governor White left his colony to sail back to England for more money and settlers. When he returned four years later, Fort Raleigh was a deserted, weed-covered ruin. Sole explanation was the Indian word...
...series of daily meetings attracted 62,430 people, and Ocean Grove expects attendance to be even better this year. So far, morning and evening crowds at Sunday auditorium services have averaged 4,000. According to Joseph A. Thoma, 39-Year-old city manager of Ocean Grove, who was born in nearby Long Branch and grew up under Ocean Grove's benign influence, the community is operating on a 100% cash basis, with funds in hand for building new jetties on the beach and completing hard-surfacing of its streets, and $35,000 per year net coming in regularly from...
...Montpellier, France toward the close of the 13th Century was born one Roch, son of the town's wealthy governor. Orphaned, Roch gave away his fortune, set out for Rome as a mendicant pilgrim. In town after town on the way, plagues miraculously disappeared upon his advent. But in Piacenza he fell ill himself, was expelled to a forest where he would have died save for the devoted ministrations of a dog. Roch died in his 30s, was identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe...
...Author was born (1895) of Italian parents in Manosque, a little village in the Basses-Alpes, and still lives there, with his wife, his mother and two children. He left high school at 14, went to work for a bank, left it for the War. The success of his first novel (1929) gave him sufficient confidence to become his own master, retire to his house, where he hung a sign on the doorknob: "J. Giono works in the mornings...