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...hillsides 130 homes were destroyed, more than million-dollar damage was done. The dwellings of wealthy Ralston White, Lucian Marsh, Charles Coles, Mrs. Mary Webber Fisk, German Consul Kurt Zeigler, had been devoured. And as fire in a forest will sometimes lay bare a landmark half-forgotten, one ash-heap in Mill Valley stood out in despatches with historical significance. It was the home of Col. Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. A. retired, onetime world hero, the man who "carried the message to Garcia...
John D. Rockefeller began to heap up his philanthropies right after his friend and doctor, the late H. L. Biggar, had warned him to cease active business or die quickly. That was 30 years ago, about the time when Andrew Carnegie became aggressive with donations (TIME, June 10). The Carnegie donations became $350,000,000, nine-tenths of the Carnegie fortune. The Rockefeller donations are already $550,000,000, probably not one-half of the Rockefeller fortune. Carnegie philanthropies deal chiefly with education and science, Rockefeller philanthropies chiefly with medicine and education...
...simply?well, he isn't. Life insurance agents have not added the 100 billionth part of one cent to the wealth of the U. S. What they have done is simply to gather up, at enormous expense, the tokens of wealth created by others, pile it up in a heap, dole out small portions of the total to their subscribers and let the surplus accumulate. W. BLENKO...
...gazed wide-eyed-motionless- voiceless-and after a moment of tense waiting the other said: 'Then-I am!' " It was Carla who jumped. She and Paul were almost drowned, were sucked into a river cave, crawled out, but not before Carla was hurt by a rubble-heap slip. Claire went off with a stoop-shouldered sculptor. But not until the two women had confabulated on their emotions...
...happily did Anaconda appear to be sitting on the top of the copper heap that few observers were conscious, last week, of Anaconda's troubles. But Chairman of the Board John D. Ryan and President Cornelius F. Kelly knew that, prosperity or no prosperity, two thorns remained in the side of Anaconda to irritate, exasperate. One thorn was George Campbell Carson. The other was William A. Clark...