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...county fathers of Los Angeles tardily (by three weeks) honored a famed local citizen's 70th birthday, handed a plaque to prodigious Popularizer Will (The Story of Philosophy) Durant, hailed in bronze as "the best known of all the living interpreters of great periods and personalities in history." Shucking off such acclaim, Dr. Durant expertly served up interpretations of two personalities: "I'd say the greatest living philosopher is Bertrand Russell, the greatest historian is Arnold Toynbee." Asked about the mixed blessing of a long life, he philosophized: "I envy Marlene Dietrich [50] because apparently she has been...
...voice that, in front-page editorials or in her weekly column, "Through Hazel Eyes," had long sounded like the county's conscience. Just out of the University of Alabama, Hazel Brannon arrived in Holmes County in 1936, borrowed $3,000, bought the weekly Durant News (circ. 1,475). She was doing well enough by 1943 to take over the county's only other paper, the Advertiser (circ. 2,800), in the county seat of Lexington (pop. 3,198), put them both to campaigning against gambling and bootlegging in the dry county...
...worst: Soviet Communism: A New Civilization? by Sidney and Beatrice Webb. * Between them, Joe and Marjorie Davies and their six daughters, three each by former marriages, have been married 20 times. Her daughters have had ten husbands; Adelaide Close married 1) Thomas W. Durant, 2) Merrall MacNeille and 3) Augustus Riggs IV; Eleanor Close married 1) Preston Sturges, 2) Etienne Marie Robert Gautier, 3) George Curtis Rand, 4) Hans Habe, 5) Owen D. Johnson and 6) Leon Barzin; Nedenia Hutton married Stanley M. Rumbough Jr. The Davies daughters have wed six times: Eleanor married 1) Thomas P. Cheeseborough...
...assure markets for their own products. The Du Ponts defense: they had bought the stock purely as an investment. To protect their original G.M. investment they were forced to pour millions more into the company in the early '205, and run it, after G.M. Founder William C. Durant's enormous stock-market losses threatened to ruin him and G.M. alike. At the time, the Du Pont total investment was some $80 million; its holdings are now worth $1.8 billion...
...North Pole. As soon as the letters hit the tabloids some of the labeled ladies set up a wail. "If he means me, he's a liar," said Mrs. Richard Durant in Honolulu, "and I'll sue him from here to the North Pole." In Hollywood Mrs. Robert Howard (Actress Andrea Leeds) was' wide-eyed. "How could anyone think he could mean me?" she asked. "After all, there are lots of Mrs. Robert Howards . . . When my darling husband read the papers he said to me, 'But I didn't know you were a Democrat...