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Family & Early Years: Born in the Boston suburb of West Newton in 1893 of a well-to-do family. His father, John Wingate Weeks, was a Boston broker, onetime Senator from Massachusetts, and Secretary of War under Harding and Coolidge. At Harvard, "Sinnie" Weeks was a classmate (1914) of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall and Harvard's President James B. Conant. A World War I artillery captain in the 26th (Yankee) Division, Weeks is still a faithful member of the Dugout Club, an association of former Y.D. officers...
...with his backer, Manhattan Millionaire Clendenin Ryan. Five months ago the Mercury owed so much money that Huie was ready to close down. In time's nick, Huie found an angel: J. (for John) Russell Maguire, of Greenwich, Conn., who was operating principally as a Wall Street broker until the SEC forced him out for "flagrant violations" of the law. Later he made millions in manufacturing (Thompson submachine guns, electrical equipment, etc.) and oil. Last week Maguire's backing cost Huie the top section of his staff...
Married. Kay Summersby, 43, Irish-born WAC captain who became General Eisenhower's wartime driver, aide, confidential secretary, later told her story in Eisenhower Was My Boss; and Reginald H. Morgan, 47, Manhattan broker, she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
...poor boys hawking papers on the streets of south Baltimore, Tommy D'Alesandro and Jack Pollack were friendly rivals. When they went into politics they stayed rivals. Tommy became Baltimore's mayor and Democratic national committeeman from Maryland. Pollack, a prosperous insurance broker, became Democratic boss of Baltimore's fourth state legislative district, and proved in election after election that he could swing 25,000 votes for any candidate he named to his faithful followers...
Died. John Cobb, 52, London fur broker and world's auto speed champion (394.19 m.p.h. for one mile, at Utah's Bonneville Flats in 1947); in a speedboat accident; on Scotland's Loch Ness. Trying to break the world's one-mile speedboat record (178.4 m.p.h. held by Seattle's Stanley Sayres), Cobb gunned his jet-propelled "Crusader" hydroplane to about 200 m.p.h., was roaring toward the end of the course's first measured mile when the boat began skipping erratically and, in sight of his wife and friends, exploded in a cloud...