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Evangelist Billy Sunday's 79-year-old widow, "Ma," went to Jamestown, N.Y., for a Gospel Missions convention, was hospitalized with a heart ailment...
...their liveliest and most authoritative pictures of the Cavalier tradition, the manners & morals, art & architecture of Colonial America. Wertenbaker was twice appointed to Oxford's honored Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair of American History. His advice to students: "Teacher says Shakespeare was a great dramatist; question it. Teacher says Jamestown was the birthplace of the nation; question...
...small businessman named David Hillstrom, proprietor of the Corry-Jamestown Manufacturing Corp. of Corry, Pa., testified that in the last year he has paid $206,000 above the mill price for sheet steel. And he paid $18,000 more for steel he never got. He is now paying from $250 to $280 a ton for sheet steel (mill price: $50 a ton) to keep his plant going...
Profits from Rolling. For such infighting, Myer Schine had plenty of rough-&-tumble business experience. A Russian immigrant, he went to school in Jamestown, N.Y., worked as a candy butcher on trains, then as a dress salesman. In 1918, he and his brother plunked down $1,500 in savings to lease a dilapidated building called the Hippodrome at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop: 23,329). With the Hippodrome, variously used as a theater, roller-skating rink and dance hall, he made enough money to buy Gloversville's two movie houses. Snapping up other small-town theaters by the dozen, he soon...
...Jamestown...