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Often a builder could get a high mort gage under Section 608 and then build for much less than the face value of his loan. Then he could sell his new property, with the new owner assuming obligation for the full mortgage, and pocket the loan savings. The windfalls were breathtaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: The Loan Scandals | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Would the President "counsel officials of the executive branch . . . not to en gage in extreme partisanship?" That is correct, said Ike. Would that include the chairman (New York's Len Hall) of the Republican National Committee? Yes, said the President, it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The High-School Debate | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Esther Williams, 31, cinemermaid (Dangerous When Wet), and second husband Ben Gage, 36, Los Angeles restaurateur: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...Howard Cotterill Sheperd, 58, was named to succeed retiring Chairman William Gage Brady Jr., 65, of Manhattan's National City Bank, second biggest in the U.S. Sheperd, who started with N.C.B. in 1916 as a trainee, has been its president since 1948. His successor: James Stillman Rockefeller, 50, a grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller, who started in the comptroller's department, became executive vice president only last Seotember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Variety Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...Viscount Gage, who claims descent from a supporter of King John's in his war with the barons, had his pedigree lopped by 200 years. The best proved ancestor Pine could give Lady (Harriet Kathleen Grace) Thompson, whose family had for generations enjoyed descent from Odo, brother-in-law of William the Conqueror, was one Oliver Grace, a 16th century M.P. from Tipperary. "I'm challenging Burke's to show by what authority they make our family suffer this indignity," said the outraged Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pruning Time | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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