Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costliest modern church in the world, planned by Europe's most famous modern architect and his son, is going up across the street from a Victorian city hall and a conventional Carnegie library in Columbus, Ind. (population: 11,738; county seat of Bartholomew County...
Reason the new Tabernacle Church of Christ will be completely free of debt is its chief donor: massive, 74-year-old Columbus Banker William Glanton Irwin, director of a dozen corporations, one of those never-publicized U. S. millionaires...
...Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Co. Brower sent an excited wire: "I can get $1,000,000 worth of insurance at once." Then he and five agents descended upon western Iowa towns, buttonholed Guardsmen right & left, kept physicians' stethoscopes buzzing with medical examinations at the rate of four an hour for four days. Fortnight ago, he flew to Columbus with the policy applications, got them accepted. He and his agents had written 300 policies for $1,438,000. Their estimated commission: $10,000, plus $1,250 a year for nine years if the policies remain in effect...
Last Tuesday Robert Judell '42, was preparing for an exam in History 60a (American Colonial History), which is taught by Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History. Recalling Professor Morison's interest in the West Indies where he recently duplicated Columbus' voyages. Judell shrewdly guessed that there might be a map question on the West Indies...
Died. Dode Fisk, 81, retired boss of a 25-car circus known as "Fisk's Great Combined Shows"; in Columbus, Ohio. Circus Man Fisk's funeral came off precisely as he had requested. Summoned from an old folks' home, Parson William S. ("Doc") Waddell, an ex-circus man, stood next to Dode's favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining...