Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belle still goes to the library almost every day, "just to finish things up." There is still much to do-old friends to see and letters to read and send. Besides, Belle is also working on a book, a history of her two favorite collectors-the J. P. Morgans, father...
When the University of Iowa's Wally Ris, a 195-lb. porpoise of a man, set out for the Olympic games last year, his father was mad: better his son should be painting the house in Chicago than off swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the zoo-meter free-style championship, his dad, a Polish emigrant who speaks only a little English, balked at letting him go to Bermuda to swim again. He stuck a paintbrush in Wally's fin, and spoke one word of English forcibly: "Commence...
...Frazer bore the title of president. Edgar and father Henry differed with Joe Frazer on many company questions, the most recent being whether K-F should declare a dividend or cut prices. The Kaisers, who wanted to cut prices...
Died. Willard Henry Dow, 52, president (since 1930) of gigantic Dow Chemical Co. (600 products); in a private airplane crash; near London, Ont. From a modest beginning by Dow's father in 1897, Dow Chemical became the largest producer of magnesium (mined from sea water) in World War II, did a $170 million business last year in industrial and agricultural chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals and magnesium...
When the guns stopped firing off Cape Trafalgar in October 1805, a young seaman sat down and wrote to his father: "Our dear Admiral Nelson is killed...