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Last week a super-secret conference met at Dayton's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to discuss high-energy "exotic" fuels, the hottest subject in the air propulsion business. The conference issued no public report, but it is well known that all major engine and rocket-motor manufacturers are experimenting with the new fuels, and that chemical plants are being built to produce them in quantity (TIME, March...
Screening Process. In Dayton, arrested for bigamy after being married to seven men since her 13th birthday, the last two marriages without benefit of divorce, 23-year-old Cynthia Corraditti offered an explanation: "It was hard to find a guy I could trust...
Rival Orchestras. Soon after the turn of the century, Dayton-born Arthur Judson became a violinist and teacher. A handsome, strongly built fellow with a resonant voice, he was soon speaking of music as another merchant might of hardware, and selling it as enthusiastically. In 1915 he became manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, then founded his own concert agency. Gradually he added to his domain: in 1922 he became business manager of the New York Philharmonic, and in 1927 he became a co-founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, gleefully predicting an immense shortage of artists as radio grew...
Airtight Case. In Dayton, Ky. Dick Beuerlein, 24, escaped from jail where he was being held on a reckless-driving charge, was recaptured two hours later explained to cops: "I've got claustrophobia...
Iowa. With no presidential delegates at stake, the leading contest was for the Senate seat occupied and defended by Republican Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, 59 ardent supporter of the Benson farm program. Hickenlooper won renomination by a two-to-one margin over Attorney General Dayton Countryman, 38, temperance and high price-support advocate. Hick's November opponent will be R. M. ("Spike"') Evans, 65, landowner, onetime AAA administrator under Henry Wallace and a high price-support man who defeated Jefferson Attorney Lumund Wilcox, 43, for the Democratic nomination. In contrast to the Republican vote (down 22,000 from...