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...Bequest of the week: $1,000,000 to Princeton, from a millionaire Clearfield,-Pa. coal dealer who never went to college. Only stipulation in the will: that the money be used for some purpose that will bear its donor's name, Abram K. Wright. ¶The Winter Haven, Fla. High School faculty decided not to let their students appear on the same stage with students from Jewett (Negro) High School for a Junior Chamber of Commerce speech contest. Subject for the contestants: "I speak for Democracy...
...Lonely Heart. In Clearfield, Pa., Mrs. Margaret Jane Redden, 82, and John D. Lewis, 81, who have had 25 children by previous marriages, announced: "This time we're marrying for companionship...
Sausage-Meat Machine. In Clearfield, Utah, Fred Stewart tried to start his car, got only a grinding noise, looked under the hood, found...
...charge: back in 1942, Kidder, Peabody & Co. had $963,000 of Jamestown, Franklin & Clearfield Railroad Co. bonds they hoped to sell for $502.50 each, but the open market price for the bonds was only $497.50. To protect the firm against a trifling underwriting loss on the issue, loyal Kidder, Peabody employes jumped into the market, bid up the price of J.F.& C. bonds to $502.50. Punishment for this deal: an SEC order suspending Kidder, Peabody & Co. from the National Association of Security Dealers, Inc. for ten days, effective...
...Struggle for Survival. In Kimball, S.D., Clarence Bely was kicked out of a barn by a horse, presently tried to show friends how it happened, was promptly kicked by the horse again. In Clearfield, Utah, a farmer who tried to heat his bath water by building a fire under the tub was presently watching his house and barns burn to the ground. In Manhattan, the emergency ward of a local hospital treated the facial lacerations of a nearsighted youth who had caught one of his pet boa constrictors trying to escape. The boy had peered into the snake...