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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Robert Young was no longer despondent. In the intervening years of recession and war he had copper-riveted his hold on the old Van Sweringen empire -with the help of $3 million from an old friend and Woolworth heir, shy, tweedy Allan Price Kirby. Now he was ready to consolidate the empire, to make it the base from which he hoped to realize an old Van Sweringen dream-a single transcontinental railroad...
Gandhi's Heir. Written in 1942-43 while Krishna waited for her husband to complete a one-year stretch, With No Regrets is no guide to the tortuous complexities of Indian politics. Nor is it even Gandhi propaganda. British imperialists may read it without risk of apoplexy. But for most westerners, these gentle reminiscences will help to bring alive the sensitive, ascetic man of dreams and action who will probably inherit Gandhi's sainted khadi during modern India's most crucial years...
Libby Holman, torch-singing widow of Tobacco Heir (Camels) Zachary Smith Reynolds, was managing to keep expenses down to her prewar level, according to a guardians' report filed in Baltimore. It showed that last year's maintenance of son Christopher, 12, had cost the singer a routine...
Married. Arline Judge, 33, cinemactress, and Vincent Morgan Ryan, 40, Chicago adman; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev. Her previous husbands: Movie Director Wesley Rugples. Tinplate Heir Dan Topping, R.A.F. Captain James Addams (who left for England eight days after their 1942 marriage, never returned...
...Shot at Headquarters. Barmine's story really begins in 1934, when a shot rang out in the Leningrad headquarters of the Communist Party. A student had killed Sergei Kirov, Leningrad Party secretary. Practically nobody outside Russia had ever heard of Kirov (he was Stalin's political heir apparent and a special pleader for peace between Stalin and the opposition). But he is not likely to be forgotten, for his assassination touched off one of history's most cryptic and luridly arresting episodes-Russia's great Purge...