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Hayden's father was a Connecticut Yankee who came down with "lung fever," headed West, took the Santa Fe Trail from Independence and finally settled in Arizona. There, on the Salt River, eight miles from a farm village that is now Phoenix, he built a flour mill, started a ferry, opened a general store, a blacksmith shop and a freighting business. Young Carl swam in the Salt River, rode a pet bull while driving cows, recalls seeing Apache fire signals burning at night on nearby Four Peaks. He went to Stanford in 1896 and, as a strapping...
...Area mayors, that declared last week "AntiCommunism Week." When Schwarz critics protested, the mayor of Fairfax denied that he had ever signed the proclamation, the mayor of San Jose said that his signature had been obtained "by misrepresentation," and the city councils of Berkeley, Sunnyvale and Mill Valley refused to endorse their mayors' signatures. California's Attorney General Stanley Mosk (who once described the John Birch Society as being composed of "retired military officers and little old ladies in tennis shoes") now called the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade a "fly-by-night promotion." Cried he: "Communism is much...
...Mercury Theater group in 1937, revitalized Broadway with productions like Julius Caesar (in modern dress), and, later, Native Son. They sent the U.S. into panic in 1938 with the celebrated CBS radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds -in which Martians were reported to be landing in Grovers Mill...
...million); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a Harvard math professor, Love returned from World War I at 23 with a major's oak leaves and $3,000 in savings, persuaded industry-hungry North Carolinians to bankroll his first textile mill; he pioneered in synthetics and over the years borrowed heavily to buy dozens of companies, often at bargain-basement prices, and became the tough-minded leader of one of the nation's toughest industries...
Prototype of the co-ops is the Mill Reef Club on isolated Antigua in the Leeward Islands. Opened in 1948 by U.S. Millionaire Robertson Ward, the club sprawls over 1.300 landscaped acres, has twelve sandy beaches, an 18-hole golf course. Membership (now closed) is rigidly screened to guarantee that openings do not go to just any old millionaire. Sixty-six members (among them: Francis du Pont) own winter homes on club property. With annual expenditures of $500,000. the club is impoverished Antigua's biggest single source of income...