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Crystal Ball. In Philadelphia, after calling on a fortune teller named Madame Carr who told him that he was about to sign an important paper, Plainclothesman John Jones walked straight to police headquarters, signed an affidavit for her arrest...
...Moscow director of Russian military intelligence ordered his Ottawa bureau chief, Colonel Nikolai Zabotin, to get in touch with Dr. May through Sam Carr, organizing secretary of the Canadian Communist Party and a central figure in the spy network Zabotin had built up in Canada. Zabotin thought Carr too risky a contact and put one of his Russian operators on to May. What the Russians wanted most at this stage was information about uranium and atomic energy, and May gave it to them. In accordance with Russian espionage practice, Zabotin's man insisted on paying May, despite his squeamish...
Career: To the money he inherited, Weeks has added a fortune he built as chairman of the board of United-Carr Fastener Corp. (metal fasteners, buckles, clips) and chairman of the board of Reed & Barton Corp. (silverware). A founder of Boston's first Young Men's Republican Club, Weeks developed an early passion for politics. "When you sit around the breakfast table as a boy and hear politics discussed daily, you are bound to develop an interest," he says. He was elected mayor of Newton in 1929, announced at his inauguration: "I want to make it plain that...
...Howard Edwards Whitaker, 48, executive vice president of the $100 million Mead (paper) Corp., was moved up to president, succeeding Charles R. Van de Carr Jr., 66, who becomes chairman...
...sunny Sunday not long ago, Sociology Professor Carr B. Lavell of George Washington University took one of his students on a fishing trip. He is a brilliant student, president of his class, a big man on campus, evidently with a bright future in his chosen field, medicine. In the bracing air, professor and student had a quiet talk. Why had he gone into medicine? asked the professor. Answer: medicine looked lucrative. What did he want to do as a doctor? Get into the specialty that offered biggest fees. Did he think that a doctor owed some special service...