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Wells, camera at the ready, began running toward her, but a passing motorist, Cyrus A. Samuel, beat him to the scene. "Don't jump!" cried Samuel. Replied Mrs. Durant: "Nobody can do anything. I'm very ill." But as Samuel kept pleading, she seemed undecided. According to Samuel, she grew noticeably more nervous as she caught sight of Wells, aiming his aerial camera with its long-distance lens. "Is he going to take my picture?" she cried. Samuel reassured her: "He's an engineer, holding a measuring box." But Wells continued snapping his shutter, and Samuel said...
When Cleveland's sly old Cyrus Eaton pulled out of his firm's contract to underwrite Henry Kaiser's new $10 million stock issue for Kaiser-Frazer Corp. in 1948, he tried to find a legal loophole to justify his action...
Until last week, Wisconsin's Republican presidential primary on April 1 seemed likely to be cut & dried. By all the signs, Bob Taft, backed by Wisconsin G.O.P. Boss Tom Coleman and National Committeeman Cyrus Philipp, was going to be a shoo-in over California's Governor Earl Warren and Harold Stassen. But after Ike Eisenhower's great day in next-door Minnesota, a slogan began to sweep across Wisconsin: "A vote for Warren is a vote for Eisenhower...
...college Dr. Neuman now runs was founded by two men who believed, as he does, that the U.S. is the hope of Jewish learning. Dr. Cyrus Adler, then assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Moses A. Dropsie, a wealthy Philadelphia lawyer, dreamed of a "Golden Age of Jewish Literature" in the U.S. When Dropsie died in 1905, he left $1,000,000 to found Dropsie College...
...Dark." On the stand for the third week as a Government witness was Harold L. Stuart, 70, head of Chicago's huge Halsey, Stuart investment banking house and a longtime friend of Cyrus Eaton, Fair-Dealing financier blamed by many Wall Streeters for stirring the Government into action in the first place. Stuart was there as an expert, and Medina was glad to see him. He welcomed him as "a real live witness who can tell me about this investment-banking business . . . instead of staying in the dark, as I stayed for over a year...