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Last week Wall Street was baking a pie much suited to Funston's taste; it was getting ready to float the first public stock issue of the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, Nov. 14). To Funston, this was a "landmark in the history of the ownership" of American business. To brokers, it was the biggest stock pie they had ever seen ($400 million). And everyone seemed to want to buy a bite. Orders flooded in by mail and phone; thousands of people who had never ventured inside a broker's office got ready to shell out their savings...
Died. Owen E. Brennan, 45, New Orleans restaurateur, owner of Brennan's Vieux Carre restaurant (a three-hour breakfast at $9.45), and the Latin Quarter landmark across the street, the Old Absinthe House (founded c. 1805); of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
Speaking before the ceremony which was held in Andover Hall, Dr. George H. Williams, professor of Church History, called Wolfson's work "a landmark in almost 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian relations. For the first time,t he philosophy of the Fathers has been analyzed and ordered as an epoch in the history of religions and philosophical thought...
...boys" were Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. And Brad Smith had been assigned by TIME to retrace their journey, photographing each landmark just as they first saw it, at the same time of year and the same time of day, from the same vantage point of mountain peak or river bed that they had described in their journals...
...York Post: The agreement between the Ford Motor Co. and the Auto Workers Union is a landmark of industrial democracy in the U.S. According to the ancient Marxist cliches, the union's demand should have precipitated a long and violent class struggle. Walter Reuther was advancing a proposition that would have been generally considered revolutionary two decades ago. There will be diehards who call young Mr. Ford a "traitor to his class." But in the history books he will be remembered for a contribution to the social engineering of this century as momentous as the mechanical wizardry...