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What Man o' War was in racing and Big Bill Tilden in tennis, 24-year-old Chicagoan Adolph Kiefer has been in backstroke swimming. He holds every world's backstroke record, in nine years never lost a race. But as it must to most rulers, dethroning came to Kiefer last week. In the National A.A.U. swimming meet in Manhattan, Kiefer, now a Chief Specialist at the Norfolk Naval Training Station, finally lost a 150-yard backstroke race to a 6 ft. 5 in. Michigan sophomore named Harry Holiday...
...early start, has already sold over $30,000,000 in bonds. Another go-getter was Hedy Lamarr, who wangled 225 tired Philadelphia businessmen into buying $4,520,000 in bonds at a single luncheon. But her patriotism has a limit-she cold-shouldered an enthusiastic Chicagoan who wanted to swap a $25,000 bond for a kiss. Pert Frances Dee sold an embroidered negligee for $5,000 in Little Rock, Ark.; Greer Garson persuaded the 23,000 men, women and children in Bluefield, W.Va. to ante $450,000 in a single day. Beamed Treasury Secretary Morgenthau: "An outstanding success...
...Waters and Adman Alfred Shebel), which for nearly two years has been dramatizing each week over CBS true tales of estranged souls whose deaths -and estates-were unknown to their presumptive heirs, last week turned up its luckiest missing heir so far: a quiet, 40-year-old, much-buffeted Chicagoan named Rawlins Phillips. His inheritance...
...violator of priorities, a Chicagoan of undisclosed identity. Charge: he had obtained a "considerable quantity" of aluminum for defense use through preference ratings, had instead supplied it to old & good customers for non-defense purposes. After his day in court, behind closed doors, OPMites retired to weigh his degree of willfulness...
Ernest Wolff,* 27-year-old Chicagoan, has been an opera buff ever since he was twelve, and made puppets to accompany his opera records. Once he got a job as waiter, then as chef, in a restaurant near the Met, so that he could spend his spare time there. Back in Chicago, he labored over his puppets, in 1938 gave a public show which was a critical success but a financial flop. In 1939 he was signed up by Gas Exhibits, Inc. at the New York World's Fair, performed his repertory-Carmen, Faust, Rigoletto, Pagliacci...