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Biggest share of the million will go to the Trib's Sunday magazine, its own special edition of the syndicated This Week. The Trib sold control of This Week to Joe Knapp of Crowell-Collier in 1935, but has always added its own special sections to the magazine. Herzberg is adding still more, including full-color reproductions of paintings, a two-page condensation of a bestseller, two pages of personality photographs, extra text-pieces each week by the Trib's own staffers or free lancers. Herzberg is also revamping the news sections of the Sunday Trib, widening...
...star runner of the squad that holds the Connecticut and Yankee Conference championships, won the race with a 22:12 time over the 4.2 mile course. But the Crimson dominated the scoring after that, with Hubie Maguire second in 22:25 and Hal Gerry third right behind him. Hank Knapp and George Gooding of UMass took fourth and seventh, but Crimson Captain Emil San Soucie, Marshall Childs, Bruce Phillips and Frank Nahigian were the deciding men with fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth places respectively...
Died. Frau Elly Heuss-Knapp, 71, wife of Theodor Heuss, President of the West German Federal Republic; after long illness; in Bonn. The daughter of Economist George Knapp, she founded the first evening school for women in Strasbourg when she was only 19. When the Nazis burned her husband's books and banned him from teaching in Berlin, Frau Heuss-Knapp supported the family by writing jingles for soap...
...Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus lion named Jackie put on one of the most sensational animal acts in Manhattan's history. Jackie leaped out of his cage, in the basement of Madison Square Garden while it was being cleaned, strolled forth, spied one Joseph Knapp, a truck driver, chased him up a flight of stairs and treed his prey atop a telephone booth. Foiled for the moment, Jackie lay down beside the lobby's Eighth Avenue doors, put his head on his paws and spent an hour staring moodily at horrified passers-by on the sidewalk outside...
Through the deal, Zeckendorf will get control of a big chunk of new capital. Since Superpower is traded on the New York Curb Exchange, the new corporation (which will probably be called Webb & Knapp Corp.) will be in a better position to raise more capital, and Zeckendorf's own stock will be more marketable. The new corporation might sell its utility holdings and concentrate on real estate...