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Once Dorothy got into the act, Ekins and the other reporter involved, the New York Times's Leo Kieran, never really had a chance. Just like a woman, Dorothy came in late. Ekins and Kieran had already booked passage to Frankfort on the Zeppelin Hindenburg's last flight that year when Dorothy decided to join them. She was then a 23-year-old crime reporter for Hearst's New York Evening Journal, and she had never reached an altitude more dizzying than Brooklyn's Prospect Park, near her home. "Oh, golly, to go around the world...
...request he agreed to stay-at least until the News completed the move to Field's new Sun-Times building on the Chicago River. This week, the shift successfully completed, Stuffy Walters lit up a fat cigar, said goodbye all around, and headed for his pig farm in Frankfort, Ind. Said Marshall Field fondly: "He is one of the really great editors of our time...
...leader in the movement for European unity, he headed the German delegation to the Schuman Plan Conference in 1950. From 1951 to 1958 he was West Germany's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Hallstein has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Munich, Rostock, and Frankfort, where he was Rector during 1946-48. He has written widely on economics and politics...
...fully recovered from burns suffered as he leaped from the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg when it exploded in Lakehurst, N.J. in 1937 (killing 36 people), but who steadfastly argued to the end that helium-filled dirigibles were the cheapest, safest and most comfortable form of air travel; of pneumonia; in Frankfort, West Germany...
Died. James F. Brownlee, 69, business executive (American Sugar Refining, General Foods, Frankfort Distilleries) and investment banker (Manhattan's J. H. Whitney & Co.), Acting OPAdministrator in 1945, chairman of the Ford Foundation's Advisory Committee, co-founder of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools; of a heart attack; at his home in Fairfield, Conn. Soft-spoken Harvardman Brownlee ('13) got his start as a sugar salesman, then turned his talents to whisky (Four Roses'), gradually gravitated to public service and became a top authority on economic controls...