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...showers the sun shone fitfully and there was a moon for night plowing. As Eire's farmers drove their spades deep into the soggy earth, Eire's priests prayed for the fine weather to hold. "A grand campaign of prayer and work will save us," said Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory...
Died. William Starling Burgess, 68, famed naval architect, designer of three successful America's Cup defenders (Ranger, Rainbow, Enterprise), pioneer airman and aircraft designer (winner of the prized Collier Trophy in 1915 for developing a self-stabilizing airplane); of a heart ailment; in Hoboken...
...Deal. In the new hand Holman held, the aces were Socony's Board Chairman Harold Sheets; Henry DeWard Collier, the shrewd, benign-looking board chairman of Aramco, boss of Standard of California; William Starling Sullivan Rodgers, director of Aramco and board chairman of the Texas Co.;Aramco's globe-trotting Vice President James Terry Duce. Their companies produce 22% of the worlds oil. They reached an agreement which, in effect, put Jersey Standard and Socony in Arabia...
Editor Jerome Ellison (briefly managing editor of Collier's and Liberty) realistically guessed where part of the trouble lay: his name-in-lights stable "have to earn livings, and they've got to sell to other markets too." To his stockholder-contributors went an urgent "special request": "We need masterfully written short stories, and articles, that will make the nation stop to read. You can insure your investment by routing '47-ward the two finest pieces you produce in the next twelve months...
...other two were Georgia's Charlie Trippi and Notre Dame's Quarterback Johnny Lujack. Last week, with every sports editor puffing into print with his own All-America team, the same four men turned up on almost everybody's list. Only Grantland Rice-who picks Collier's All-America team, the nearest thing to an official selection-was different. Granny Rice couldn't decide between Lujack and Army's Arnold Tucker, finally took the easy way out by picking a five-man backfield...