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Mississippi Mud. Heidelberg, a dirt-poor whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around...
Miss Edinger, too, is receiving her second Guggenheim Fellowship. A distinguished refugee scholar from Germany, she was educated at the University of Heidelberg, Munich, and Frankfort, and has been a research associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology since 1944. Her contributions to scholarly journals published in German, French, and English, are numerous...
...Dreamer. At 73, Rupert Turnbull is stoop-shouldered, spry, twinkle-eyed, enthusiastic. A native of St. John, N.B., he graduated from Cornell in 1893, studied at Germany's Heidelberg, got his first job as a General Electric Co. engineer at Newark. In 1899 he inherited a fortune from his banker father, soon returned to New Brunswick to experiment in the new science of aerodynamics...
Stephen Bonsal was soon acting under Colonel House's orders. He knew far more about Europe than House did. Born in Maryland, educated in New Hampshire (St. Paul's) and Germany (Heidelberg), Bonsal had in 1915 been a world traveler and newspaperman for 30 years, became a lieutenant colonel in World War I. For James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald (who, he says, was fond of "quoting winged words which, rightly or wrongly, he attributed to Abraham Lincoln"), Bonsal covered the meetings of Russian and German revolutionists in New York City and London, flew...
While Marshall has played the Doctor for numerous companies, nearly every now company that forms finds a new Prince and a new partner for him. This ime Kathie, niece of the landlord of the inn where the Prince abides during his stay at Heidelberg, is exceptionally attractive, besides having the other necessary qualities of a good soprano voice and acting ability. Laurol Hurley is a believable "heroine" and surely headlines the female element in the cast...