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...Insurrectos. At Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship, the Olympia. Preparedness messages were delivered on Boston Common by James Roosevelt, at the Navy Department by droopy-mustached Secretary Claude A. Swanson, in Atlanta by the Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, Iowa-born Admiral William D. Leahy. But seadogs old & young, already convinced that Roosevelt II is Navy's best Presidential booster since Roosevelt I, last week had a better reason to rejoice in their biggest Navy...
...eleven years John Gabbert Bowman, Iowa-born chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, has been building a 535-ft., 42-story skyscraper known to his admiring fellow citizens as the "Cathedral of Learning." During Depression, Pitt had to cut its faculty salaries and staged a Red hunt which got Chancellor Bowman into trouble with the American Association of University Professors. But the Cathedral of Learning kept climbing into the air. Last week, with Pitt's sesquicentennial celebration well under way, the Cathedral of Learning, now 90% complete, was opened to two days of public inspection. Into a vast, four...
Chairman of National Lead is Iowa-born Edward Joel Cornish, 74, thin-haired but still square jawed. From 1882 to 1906 he practiced law in Omaha. One of his clients was Levi Carter, head of Carter White Lead Co. After Mr. Carter's death in 1903, Mr. Cornish became president of Carter Lead, sold the company to National Lead in 1906, ten years later became National's president. In 1933 he moved up to the chairmanship, was succeeded by Fred Mason Carter, who is old Levi Carter's nephew...
...late Theodore F. Merseles once declared that he was more interested in "making young men" than in making money. One young man he made was Lewis H. Brown, an Iowa-born farm boy whom he discovered in Montgomery Ward. When Mr. Merseles moved from the mail-order business to asbestos as head of Johns-Manville Corp., he took along Lewis Brown as his assistant. And after Mr. Merseles' death in 1929, Lewis Brown succeeded him as J-M's president...
Connecticut used to be one of the New England states, and to New Englanders it still is, but Manhattanites tend to think of it as a rustic week-end resort. To Iowa-born Phil Stong, writing of the sophisticated eccentricities of a Manhattanite smart set, Connecticut is a natural setting for their Jabberwockian gimblings. Author Stong's brilliant exaggeration has made even his native Iowa a melodramatic backdrop; with the iridescent decadence of a Westerner's East in which to dip his brush, he has outdone himself. His Week-End is a melodrama of gamily high life, told...