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This scrutiny of Hurley and Heller centered around their connection with the Narragansett Machine Co. of Pawtucket, R.I. - Hurley as a $12,000-a-year vice president, Heller as the Army finance officer who had arranged a $2,000,000 Government-guaranteed loan for the financially queasy company, and a loan renewal (TIME, Dec. 4). Heller, who denied knowing Hurley at the time, had a War Department official and an Army colonel testify to his honesty in the deals. Such testimony seemed enough for the Senators...
Some Senators promptly recalled a House Military Affairs Committee investigation last year into war contracts and $4,000,000 in Government-guaranteed loans given the Narragansett Machine Co. of Pawtucket, R.I. The committee had wondered why Hurley, as vice president, had been paid $12,000 a year when he spent "as little as one day a week" at the plant, had no set duties. Coupled with this was the fact, suspicious to the committee, that Hurley got the job just before a $2,000,000 loan and just after several million dollars in war contracts had gone to the company...
...with nature in the form of a skiing excursion to the North Conway trails last Saturday. If you're of like mind, there's a suggestion for the weekend. If not, here's another. A special leaves at 1225 tomorrow for Providence, R. I., where "they're off" at Narragansett at 1430. Naturally officers don't gamble, but servicemen are admitted free, and watching others get rich on Reyes in the fourth race will be a pleasant pastime...
...scrambled for mounts until he rode War Relic to victory over Whirlaway in the 1941 Narragansett Special. Big stables took note: J. M. Roebling and C. V. Whitney put him under contract. Atkinson's dual contracts call for around $1,000 a month plus 10% of purses he wins. His income in 1943 was close to $60,000. Unlike most riders, he never gambles...
...with the Christmas, New Year's and Orange Bowl Handicaps on successive Saturdays. Cincinnati fans will never forget the day he outran Seabiscuit in a race at River Downs. But the biggest kick he ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky Derby winner the previous year, he rewrote the script by holding off the Admiral's bid until the homestretch, then, in a spine-tingling stretch duel, reached the wire close on the Admiral's heels...