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Washerwoman & Kaiser. The Monacan succession has been fairly tenuous in recent decades. Prince Albert I (1848-1922), an oceanographer of world renown, was the first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit...
...last week's sick list: Colorado's brainy Republican Senator Eugene D. Millikm, 64, ailing with a "digestive upset" in the capital; roly-poly Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, 73, bedded in Honolulu after suffering slight injuries when he fell in his bedroom in the dark...
Oberleutnant Franz Marc, artillery observer in the Kaiser's Fifth Army, stood tall, handsome and sad one day in early March 1916 in a hush of the great battle for Verdun. "One chews constantly," he had written his wife, "on that ever more baffling riddle: how this war is possible." He had spoken of living on three levels: soldierly, meditative and creative. Soldiering was to him "a complete dream act." Meditating was "perhaps closer to true experience." Creating was "an unconscious growing and going towards a goal, the sprouting of art ... a seed that one must not grasp rudely...
...locomotives, radios and earthmovers, he becomes again the eagle-sharp comptroller who can tell from figures how men and machines are doing. His predecessor, rumpled Engineer Charlie Wilson, used to gab cheerfully with friends, and occasionally gave friendly advice to some of his lesser competitors, such as Nash and Kaiser. Curtice rarely finds time for such activity, a fact that has not endeared him to his fellow corporation executives outside of G.M. For example, Curtice is a member of the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory Council but hardly ever attends the meetings...
...HENRY KAISER will borrow $95 million from private banks to retire all outstanding debts of Willys and Kaiser Motors Corp. (including $13.3 million owed the Government). To do so, Kaiser will bring his automaking, construction, steel, cement, aluminum and home-building companies under one giant company to be known as Kaiser Industries Corp...