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Died. Luke Lea, 66, Tennessee politico, who at 27 captured a state Democratic convention, at 31 became a U.S. Senator, at 40 almost captured the Kaiser and at 55 went to jail for a bank fraud; of a gastric attack; in Nashville. In the famed 1919 attempt to abduct Wilhelm II, Colonel Lea and seven other Yanks, posing as newsmen, penetrated the exile's retreat before the Dutch wised...
...famed Permanente hospitals, which, at the shipbuilding peak, had over 75,000 Henry Kaiser workers as subscribers, have now begun to let the general public join up at the low war-worker rate (60? a person a week). More than half of the present 40,000 subscribers are now non-shipbuilders. The hospitals' 80 doctors, who have a good record for operations, are convinced that their best work has been in keeping people from getting very sick. A patient gets care when he begins to need it, rather than when he can no longer...
...other day I ran into Johnny Field, who played bass with Bill Davison's all star crew at the Ken in 1943. Personnel included the late Rod Cless, clarinet, James P. Johnson, plan, Kaiser Marshall, drums, Sandy Williams, trombone, and Bill himself on cornet...
...414th Infantry who found the Princess Hermine, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, living in Rossala, Germany, promptly presented her with a copy of TIME. She told them she "knew the magazine well, but hadn't seen it for a long time...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp. last week leased (for five years) to the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. its $100,000,000 bomber plant at Willow Run, Mich. The new tenants will pay $500,000 rent the first year, $1.2 million a year after 1947, will use two-thirds of the plant's 5,052,177 square feet of floor space to manufacture the low-priced Kaiser automobile (now being designed). In the rest of the space the medium-priced Frazer car will be made, along with the Graham-Paige line of farm equipment...