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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter-half-million-dollar strings of pearls, Isotta motor cars, cases of double bottles of Grand Chambertin '87, suites at Claridge's, brief trips aboard the Bremen, a little grouse shooting ... He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness,' he is reputed to travel with his own linen sheets, punkah wavers, court chamberlains and sauce cooks...
...donors, mysterious or otherwise, seemed to be getting scarcer and scarcer. But last week, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology learned that they had not disappeared entirely. Founded in 1900 with a big endowment from Andrew Carnegie, Tech had just received $6,000,000 more from the W. L. (for William Larimer*) and May T. Mellon Foundation. Object: to set up a graduate school of industrial administration, the first of its kind...
With a fat, 28-page anniversary issue, Manhattan's Daily Worker last week marked its 25th birthday as the oldest Communist U.S. daily. There were greetings from such sister publications as France's L'Humanité, Britain's Daily Worker and Poland's Trybuna Ludu. (Russia's Pravda tactfully refrained from sending any message.) But there was no office celebration, and little to celebrate. Circulation was at a low 24,700 daily and 67,000 Sunday, finances were as shaky as ever. And sallow, hard-bitten Editor John Gates, who had trained for journalism...
...Laurance Rockefeller back in 1939, McDonnell had "nothing but his briefcase." Laurance, the third son of John D. Jr., had money. He also had a taste for "helicopters and such things," and he liked the blueprints showed him by McDonnell, a crack designer who had once worked for Glenn L. Martin. When they parted, McDonnell had $40,000 of good Rockefeller cash and Rockefeller had 4,000 shares of highly speculative preferred stock. The deal helped McDonnell to build his second-floor engineering office into St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft Corp., which during the war made...
Congenital Crooks. With H. L. Mencken he deplored the passing of the sturdy old American virtues. He was impressed when an acquaintance remarked, "The real trouble is that the average American is a congenital crook...