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Though the estate of high-living Comedian Ernie Kovacs proved to be heavily encumbered by debts (among them: $250,000 in U.S. tax liens), his widow, Actress Edie Adams, refused to regard herself as a charity case. When a group of show business luminaries led by Milton Berle rallied to stage a fund-raising TV series for her benefit, Edie declined, explaining that "it would have embarrassed Ernie, and besides, there are so many worth while things that really need help." To support their three daughters, the pert comedienne proposed to rely on her own endeavors, which currently include...
Some of the characters are old hands at the game. Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon made his first foray against the Reds in 1947. George Wunder's Terry, like Canyon a U.S. Air Force pilot, is as good at outmaneuvering the Russian and Chinese Communists as he ever was against the China-coast pirates of the 1930s. Navy Commander Buz Sawyer has just set forth on a mission against the international dope trade-or, as Sawyer's creator. Artist Roy Crane, put it, "the sinister machinations of a World Power...
...peaks of English education, Americans are more aware of Oxford, perhaps because Rhodes scholars go there. Few even realize that the reputable university in Cambridge, Mass., was founded by a B.A. (Cantab.) named John Harvard; few could guess that Cambridge is the alma mater of Bacon, Byron, Darwin, Erasmus, Milton, Newton, Spenser, Tennyson, Thackeray, Walpole and Wordsworth. Strong in classics and "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), Oxford has dominated Whitehall and Westminster. But now England has a surfeit of politicians and debaters. It needs more scientists and engineers, and so it needs Cambridge...
Just as it dominates the U.S. chocolate market, the Hershey Corp.-and the ever-present sweet scent of its products-dominates the town of Hershey, in the undulating Pennsylvania Dutch country. Town and company alike were confected by patriarchal Milton S. Hershey, an ambitious farmboy who learned to make taffies that he called "French Secrets," went broke in three candy businesses before he built Hershey Chocolate in 1903 on the cornfields surrounding the house in which he was born. Exploiting a turn-of-the-century switch in U.S. tastes from other candies to chocolate, Milton Hershey...
Before long, Milton Hershey was a multimillionaire who could boast, "I have made all the money I need; what I want to do is put it to work so that it will benefit others." By the time he died at 88 in 1945, Hershey had built most of the town of Hershey and turned it over to his estate for use by the town's 6,000 residents. Among his gifts: a $3,000,000 community house, a junior college, three schools, two country clubs, four golf courses, an amusement park, two swimming pools, an ice rink, a hotel...