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...fight between Copper King Fritz Heinze and Standard Oil's John D. Ryan for the Butte, Mont. copper properties was finally settled by a $500,000 toss of a coin...
...13th Century, St. Thomas Aquinas erected a towering Gothic cathedral of thought with vaulting arches of metaphysics, flying buttresses of Aristotelian science, stained windows of Revelation. In his great study of medieval France, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams sympathetically noted the judgment of Pope Leo XIII: "On the wings of St. Thomas's genius, human reason has reached the most sublime height it can probably ever attain...
Halifax, on Nova Scotia's southeast coast, was the departure point for convoys in World War I, was leveled on the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, when the French freighter Mont Blanc, loaded with T.N.T., blew up after a collision with the Belgian relief ship Imo. Today Halifax's fine harbor is Britian's convoy point once again, reputedly has been made into a good naval base as well. From its seaplane and land air bases, Canuck pilots fly out to sea on convoy escort and submarine patrol. Nova Scotia is heavily wooded, is connected with...
Married. Else Marie Hall, 20, daughter of famed Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad; and Accountant Arthur Dusenbury, son of a wealthy ranch owner; in Bozeman, Mont. Else had once thought of becoming a singer, changed her mind because "I am afraid I could never sing as well as Mother...