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...Philadelphia Athletics will move to Kansas City. Chicagoan Arnold Johnson announced that he had acquired the franchise for about three and one half million dollars...
...Chicagoan Meek, who fought unceasingly against wartime price controls, Paul Douglas is a "symbol of socialism." In contrast to the Douglas view, he thinks that most of the Eisenhower Administration's domestic policies are basically sound, but has some doubts about its foreign policies, e.g., he wants foreign aid cut sharply. He is close to Douglas on one, and probably no more than one, basic issue: both favor lower tariffs...
...Irish Fellowship Club to come to a St. Patrick's Day banquet, Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell decided that even Irishmen can carry fellowship too far. The scheduled after-dinner speaker: Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). After turning down the bid, Chicagoan Mitchell wrote: "I will not break bread with a man who has borne false witness against over 30 million Americans...
This week Athlyn Deshais announced the name of the winner and new queen: Mrs. Chauncey McCormick. Sighed Mrs. McCormick: "I'm completely overcome." Certainly the new queen was eminently qualified for her job. Marion McCormick, a grandmother in her 60s, is a third-generation Chicagoan, and one of the richest women in the U.S. She gives impeccable dinners, served on gold plate and fine Lowestoft china. She is a cousin by marriage of Bertie McCormick. She owns fabulous emeralds, pearls and old masters, presides over a luxurious Lake View Avenue apartment, a Wheaton suburban estate, a mansion at Seal...
Henry Crown is a fast-moving, fast-thinking Chicagoan who has made $50 million in the last 30 years and has thereby become something of a legendary figure in finance. He is chairman of the Empire State Building Corp., is the No. 2 power in the Hilton hotel chain, and controls the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (with two associates). With Hotelman Conrad Hilton, he bought Chicago's Palmer House and with Hilton and some associates, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. On top of all this, Crown built his Materials Service Corp. of Chicago into the biggest supplier of construction...