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Married. Olivia de Havilland, 30, British-born cinemactress (Anthony Adverse, Captain Blood), sister of Cinemactress Joan Fontaine; and Marcus Goodrich, 48, screen writer, novelist (bestseller Delilah); she for the first time, he for the fifth; in Wilton, Conn...
...town's atmosphere of rugged independence many a titan of industry had flourished: John D. and William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Stephen Harkness and others of the original Standard Oil Co.; Samuel and William Mather, President-Maker Marcus Alonzo Hanna and a score of other ironmasters and lake shipping tycoons. In its formative era men of such wealth had largely held the reins of power over Cleveland's development. In more recent years, up to depression, the town had been greatly shaped to the mould of the late Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, whose Terminal Tower remains...
Harold William Blackeby, Richard Brewster Fawcott, George Bell Frankforter, Jr., Alden Robert Grove, Charles Jomart Hardy, Wharton Drexel Hubbard, John Samuel Jillson, Edward Atkinson McLeod, Lawrence Newell Marcus, Charles Murray Purinton, Wendell Frederick Smith, Jr., John Le Baron Turner, William Russell Van Gemert, Stephen Jerome Welsh, De De Williams...
...Navy had given up altogether on six other islands: Johnston, Wake, Marcus, Iwo, Palmyra and Canton. Iwo, with its 9,800-ft. B-29 strip, would be taken over by the Army; Marcus would have a tiny weather station detachment...
...then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender, the bases had to be built from the substructure...