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...educated in engineering at Cornell ('17), served in the Air Corps (not overseas) in World War I, broke into movies as a prop man with the old Famous Players-Lasky. When he inherited $150,000 from his grandfather, he plunged it all in a Western (Ben Hampton of Placer), tripled his money, lost it all on a second Western (never finished...
...night fire broke out in a Manhattan building, drove out the residents next door. The refugees: wealthy Jules Brula-tour & wife, glitteringly blonde ex-Star Hope Hampton. Their refuge: the neighboring home of veteran Humorist Arthur ("Bugs") Boer...
...President's bill, only 11% against. Well each Congressman knows that one enemy in his district is more potent than ten friends. The lobby had three powerful leaders in the House: Georgia's Paul Brown, Alabama's Henry B. Steagall, South Carolina's Hampton P. Fulmer-Southern politicians all, who have passed their Democratic primaries, and trust the public's memory will fade inside another two years...
...Captain Hampton Green's bog-busters chewed switchbacks down a steep hillside of ice-hard dirt in a day and a half, ferried a river, scratched up the other side. Right on their heels, Lieut. Colonel Heath Twichell set his Negro engineers to bridging the tumbling water, singing as they sawed. Wading waist deep in the fast icy stream, they put the bridge across in 36 hours, sang hymns at a Sunday service down by the riverside after the job was done...
Daniel Armstrong grew up around the Hampton campus, graduated from Annapolis, spent most of World War I on a destroyer, was acting commander of a pitching four-stacker when he left the Navy in 1919 to enter business. He was a petroleum company executive when the Navy recalled him two years ago as an administrator and idea man. He originated the Navy E (for excellence) program for industry, then moved on to Great Lakes...