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Careers: He inherited a big bank account from his North Dakota banking family, tried banking in Fargo, N. Dak. (1918-19). flopped at Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Chicago (1921-25), married very rich Marion Rosenwald* in 1921 (they were divorced in 1937), did better on the board of multimillionaire father-in-law Julius Rosenwald's Rosenwald Fund, also sat in as chairman of the Illinois State Housing Board (1933-37). She went to the University of Chicago (1926-30), learned there, as she put it. about "inequality, injustice, economic persecution," put in two years as assistant literary editor...
...other Arab nations will get the jitters at the prospect of seeing the Russians with an established base of operations in the heart of the Middle East. Even Egypt's Nasser, who has put his head farther into the Soviet noose than any other Arab leader except Hourani & Co., is obviously apprehensive...
Poor by Western standards, Syria is moderately prosperous as Middle Eastern nations go. Though she has no oilfields of her own, nearly a seventh of her national budget last year came from transit fees paid by Tapline and Iraq Petroleum Co. pipelines across it. (Because the Syrian army sabotaged the I.P.C. pipeline at the time of the Suez invasion, oil is flowing through it at only 40% of its pre-Suez rate.) For all her chronic political chaos, Syria has made notable economic progress since World War II. Irrigation schemes, mostly private, have more than doubled wheat production since...
...Crescendo, a mishmash of American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical edition of Junior Miss; and a Cole PorterS. J. Perelman musicollaboration on Alladin. To plug the Ford Motor Co.'s new Edsel, Crooners Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra will team up for the first time on TV. And Producer John Houseman's new Omnibus-type show, The Seven Lively Arts, will kick off in November with Perelman's treatment of The Changing Ways of Love over the past...
England Mutual Life Insurance Co. called its tightly packed offset paper The Spare Wheel ("For Use in Emergencies Only"), noted on Page One that its 30-odd news items a day, "unless otherwise indicated, are furnished via the international wires of the United Press...