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...weathered slumps (by upping volume and cutting prices) and other storms, including the divorce of her first husband. When she was kidnaped in 1931, Nellie refused to pay a $75,000 ransom. She was released, ransom-free, soon married her lawyer, Missouri's aged (73) ex-U.S. Senator James A. Reed (who died eleven years later...
Last week the dead G.I.s got a living memorial. Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson and a platoon of big names (Herbert Hoover, Jim Farley, General Omar Bradley, Philip Murray, Louella Parsons) began raising $2,000,000 to help rebuild the University of Nijmegen in honor of the 82nd...
Died. Craig Biddle, 68, gay blade of the mauve decade, socialite, sportsman; of a heart ailment; in Wakefield, R.I. Brother of famed Marine Jujitsu Instructor Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, uncle of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Craig Biddle was a society leader on two continents, ran two showplace mansions (Lauranto in Radnor, Pa., Nethercliffe in Newport), played Davis Cup tennis, married three times...
...years our industry has been subject to the most minute regulation and scrutiny by the Securities & Exchange Commission,"said he. "Someone, for whatever reasons, has misled the Department." Snorted John M. Hancock, partner in Lehman Bros., co-author of the Baruch-Hancock reconversion report (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944) and ex-U.S. delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: "Either these charges are based on ignorance of how business is done, or this is another campaign against American business made for purposes that will not stand the light...
...Queen's captain-a boyish-looking, 33-year-old ex-U.S. Navy pilot named Charles Martin-decided what to do. While he still had gasoline for almost three hours' flight, he doubled back toward the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which" was on station as a weather ship about 900 miles northeast of Newfoundland. He found her, with fuel to spare. But as the plane settled lower, the tense and silent passengers saw a fearsome sight. The gale-driven waves were rolling 35 feet high and 100 feet from crest to foaming crest...