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Steady Job Without Pay. Charles Dawes's bedrock integrity never led him into a silly contempt for money. In 1880, when his father was running for Congress, young Charley, 15, startled his staunch Republican family by parading past their Marietta, Ohio home tootling a flute in the opposition band. It was, he explained airil when he got home, a purely professional appearance for which he had received one silver dollar...
...Allison engines, the squat, bulbous C-130 is designed for quick shuttling of tactical weapons in airborne assaults, has a ramp for hustling trucks and howitzers aboard and a rear opening for air drops. Retooling for production of the C-130 will start shortly at Lockheed's big Marietta, Ga. plant...
...best ways to break into show business is to have a single-minded mother. Such a mother was Mrs. Marietta Hawk of Creston, Iowa. When her nine-year-old son Bob won an elocution contest, Mrs. Hawk decided that he was headed for great things. She drilled him in oratory, poetry and dramatic readings and, before he graduated from high school, entered him in 20 state and regional contests. Bob Hawk won 19 of them...
Dawes was attending the 40th reunion of the class of 1884 at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. Said TIME: "Naturally, since a big convention was going on at Cleveland, there was some listening-in by radio. Several members of '84 were at it. After a hot roll call, the Republican nominee for Vice President was announced. It was one of those very Marietta '843 [Dawes himself] who were listening in. And he exclaimed . .. : 'Well, I declare...
...lean crewmen bent to it, pulling their lightweight (250 lbs.) toothpick shells in surging spurts over Syracuse's Lake Onondaga. It was the golden jubilee race of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, once known as the Poughkeepsie Regatta, later shifted from the Hudson River to the Ohio (at Marietta), and now settled at Syracuse, out of reach of floods...