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This week Truth Salesman David Elton Trueblood, 53, got the biggest selling job of his life. He was appointed chief of Religious Policy for the U.S. Information Agency. As such, he will be in charge of one of the busiest, farthest-flung and least-known religious enterprises in the world...
...canyon itself is one of America's most beautiful and least-known national monuments. It lies at the heart of the Navaho reservation, about 80 miles northwest of Gallup, N.M. on a spine-rattling dirt road. Down the winding course of the canyon runs an underground river. In summer, Navahos farm the sandy banks and dig for water in midstream. Superstitiously afraid of the cave ruins, they build their hive-shaped hogans at the feet of the sky-filling sandstone cliffs. The Navahos still paint animals, like the cows below, on the cliffs; the earliest known example of their...
Mary Magdalene, the repentant courtesan who followed Christ, is one of the most famed and least-known characters in the Gospels. Because of her early trade, some of the ancient church fathers, and later Christians of excessive scruple, have been embarrassed by her presence in the liturgy. On the other hand, her sinful past has been a never-failing godsend to novelists trying to put a little spice into stories with a New Testament setting...
...plenty of time to earn a million dollars by the time he was 40. During World War I he pooled French and British shipping; in the Depression he lost his first million, and in the '30s he became one of the world's most active and least-known financial backroom boys. Monnet's influence on events has often been decisive. It was Monnet's insistence that the Allies should place large aircraft orders in the U.S. just before World War II that led to the quadrupling of U.S. output, and the production of vital airplane engines...
...enter the U.S. market, I.C.I, bought 70% of the outstanding stock of Arnold, Hoffman & Co., Inc. of Providence, R.I., one of the oldest (135 years) though least-known U.S. chemical companies. The price was high: I.C.I, had to pay $55 a share, twice what the stock had recently been selling for. To finance the $3,500,000 deal, shrewd Scotsman McGowan did not spend any of Britain's scarce dollars. He merely arranged to borrow the money from Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., will repay it from Arnold, Hoffman's U.S. earnings...