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Precise, pleasant Miss Mary Cheever was a person of consequence in Gary, Ind. She had taught French and Spanish for 24 years, mostly at Lew Wallace High School, had once been president of the Gary branch of the American Association of University Women, and had seen Paris and South America. At 45, Miss Cheever surveyed her world sensibly through rimless eyeglasses and lived a rich, full, civic life...
BETTY McCABE West Lafayette, Ind...
...plant of the Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. in Fort Wayne, Ind. was about as lonesome as a haunted house. Production had virtually stopped, employment was down from 2,500 to a skeleton crew of a few hundred. Because of its heavy losses (TIME, Jan. 24), Farnsworth stock, which had hit a high of 11¾ a year ago, was slipping steadily...
Porter was born in Peru, Ind. (pop. 15,000), in the corn country 75 miles north of Indianapolis, but his beginnings were hardly simple. He was the only child of a prosperous druggist, and the grandson and heir of coal and lumber Tycoon J. 0. Cole, who was worth something like $7,000,000. Though it took Cole years to satisfy his oh-such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester...
...leading Venetian hotel. This pleasure dome plied the canals regularly, with French chef, wine cellar, Negro jazz band and $10 cover charge. As a small boy, Cole had fallen in love with Venice when he saw a backdrop painting of the Grand Canal in the Peru (Ind.) theater; he still thinks it is the best place to live...