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...late, late television watcher can attest -it was certainly durable. In the course of 50 movies, Ronald Wilson Reagan almost invariably played the grinning gallant, the fall guy who winds up heartbroken, dead broke or plain dead. In King's Row, he lost his legs; in Santa Fe Trail and Dark Victory, bigger stars got the girl. In Hellcats of the Navy, he wound up taking a submarine on a suicidal mission; as George Gipp in Knute Rockne-All American, he expired exhorting the team to greater glory. So indelibly was Reagan type-cast as the Great Loser that...
...than ever-on both sides of the footlights. In the past 16 years, the quality and quantity of American singers have risen sharply-though many still have to go to Europe to serve their apprenticeship. But even that trend is beginning to reverse itself as Dallas, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Boston and Chicago develop their own troupes, though they still continue to import the finest singers from the international circuit. In 1950, for example, there were 200 opera companies in the U.S.; today there are more than 700-amateur and semiprofessional for the most part, but all bristling with energy...
...kingpins of finance both in the U.S. and abroad. Set up in 1848 in a tiny State Street office by Lawyer John Clarke Lee and his cousin, Boston Merchant George Higginson, Lee Higginson over the years financed the development of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and other Western railroads, built several Boston fortunes by developing the fabulous Calumet & Hecla Copper Mine in Michigan. The firm helped put together General Electric in 1892, led the financing of the struggling General Motors...
Albert E. Holland and Fe del Mundo first met in the internment camp at Manila's Santo Tomas University in early 1942, just after the city had fallen to the Japanese. Fresh from the well-fed U.S. business colony there, he was still a husky 195-pounder, determined to talk the camp authorities into improving the lot of his fellow internees. She was tiny and frail, only 5 ft. 1 in. and under 90 lbs., a Filipino doctor with a brand-new practice. Dr. del Mundo, who had received much of her medical training in the U.S., was determined...
Last week, by strange coincidence, the two met again in Geneva, N.Y. During the winter, the Medical Women's International Association had picked its president, Pediatrician Fe del Mundo, to receive its Elizabeth Blackwell award, named for the first woman to earn an M.D. degree in the U.S. The scene for the ceremony was the Geneva campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, for it was in Geneva in 1849 that Elizabeth Blackwell became a doctor...