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...Quiet Type. George Humphrey is from the Midwest heartland of coal and ore which supports the kingdom of steel. Since the '20s he has converted Cleve land's M. A. Hanna Co. from a foundering hodgepodge of mines and miscellany into a skillfully integrated corporation with holdings worth $250 million. The M. A. Hanna Co. dominates coal and iron mines, ships, banks, chemical plants, a rayon plant, a steel corporation-and is now deep in an enormous ore project in Labrador. Humphrey's exploits made his name magic among the planners and visionaries of U.S. industry...
...Cleve Barfield, well-to-do kaolin mine operator, has his mind on another man's wife and an ancient legal injustice when he is jockeyed into the thankless job of captaining what looks like the town's losing battle against the river. Twenty years before, one of his Trafford in-laws had been mysteriously murdered. Later, a luckless Negro, pawning the dead man's watch, was arrested, tried, convicted and, strangely, given only a life sentence. Now a Yankee journalist named Vitner is carpetbagging in Fredericksville, poking into this old case, trying to fit the pieces...
After almost four years of hoping, Italy was at last getting back its looted art, mostly from an Austrian salt mine where the Nazis had hidden it. The rescued treasures included such famed paintings as Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind, Titian's Danae, Joos van Cleve's Adoration of the Magi, Palma Vecchio's Sacra Conversazione, Tiepolo's Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice...
Like many another war baby, Cleve land's loudly self-advertised Jack & Heintz, Inc. was knocked flat Tby war's hurried exit. But last week Jahco was getting back on its feet. There were some 2,000 old associates (employes) back at work, and short, sport-shirted President William S. Jack was rehiring at the rate of 1,000 a month. Most of the old benefits, soft music, free lunches, etc. were still in force, except one. Take-home pay had been cut 53%, though Bill Jack said pay will still average $2,900 a year...
Muncrief, St. L. Newhouser, Det Leonard, Wash. Gromek, Cleve. Ferriss, Boston Wolff, Wash. Benton, Det. Reynolds, Cleve Sevens, N. Y. Potter...