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After seeing Annie Get Your Gun, North Platte, Neb. Banker William H. McDonald, 89, who once lent Buffalo Bill Cody $4,000 to start his first traveling show, had a word of criticism: Ethel Merman and Betty Hutton were far more lively than the real Annie Oakley. As he remembered her, "she was a nice, quiet little woman...
...legislation passed by the Cambridge City Council first came to Allen's attention through Harvard friends. Allen said that he has many friends at Harvard who have lent support to his organization. Among them he says, are Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, and Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology...
Last week Henry had a different kind of news to report. The RFC, he said, would soon get back the $91 million it had lent to Kaiser Steel, which operates the Fontana (Calif.) steel plant. What was more, Kaiser planned to expand Fontana's capacity by 15% (to 1,380,000 tons a year) and install a tinplate plant with a capacity of 200,000 tons a year. With the tinplate facilities, he hopes to get a big slice of business from the West's canning industry, which consumes some 700,000 tons of tinplate a year, most...
...countless warmly human stories. One told how he got to Rome to be elected Pope. Having given away all his money to the poor of Venice, he applied to the Catholic banks for a travel loan, but was turned down as a poor risk. Finally a Jewish admirer lent him the money for the journey, but Cardinal-Patriarch Sarto was so certain he would not be elected Pope that he bought a round-trip ticket. When he died he wrote in his will: "I was born poor. I lived poor most of my life. I wish to die poor...
...MATS ground crew talked the ship down with GCA equipment, guided it to a perfect landing between the double white lines on the 10,000-foot runway. Then the Trader swung over the great circle route to Tokyo's Haneda airport. Northwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and six ships lent by the Royal Canadian Air Force later followed this northern route to Japan. Pan American, whose ten places make up the biggest private-line fleet in the service, led the way across the mid-Pacific via Hawaii. Eight other U.S. lines soon followed, plus one of Belgium's Sabena...