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TIME Researcher Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Fremd walked up to the huge new ship still abuilding at the Newport News shipyards. At her side as they approached the superliner United States was a sturdy gentleman in a blue suit. A guard stopped them: no women allowed on board. "Oh, that's all right," blandly quipped Miss Fremd's escort. "She's my wife." The guard looked puzzled: "And who are you?" "I," said the gentleman, "am the captain of this ship...
...Newport, Ky. (pop. 31,044), just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, gambling houses and brothels have often caused trouble, so newsmen are ever on the alert for stories there. One night last summer, the Louisville Courier-Journal got a solid telephone tip about Newport, and sent Photographer George Bailey hustling to the scene. The tip: Glenn Schmidt's Playtorium, a plush dining-drinking-gambling-bowling club, was about to be raided. The leader of the raid was Newport's Detective Jack Thiem, who had hired 16 private detectives in Louisville, 106 miles from Newport, to help...
When Photographer Bailey arrived on the scene, he got more than he expected. Inside the Playtorium the raiding party not only found such gambling equipment as crap tables and bingo games; they also encountered Newport's Police Chief George Gugel, and three detectives who had just dropped in "for a soft drink." Photographer Bailey snapped pictures, including one of Chief Gugel with Playtorium Proprietor Schmidt. But Bailey's picture-taking came to an abrupt...
...rutile, from which the wonder metal titanium is produced. To the south, near Fort Myers, an oilfield is producing commercially. Oil was also found last month in a new area not far away. To the north, slash pine is feeding the paper and chemical industries. In the Everglades, Newport Industries and other companies are turning out tough ramie fiber, a promising substitute for Indian jute...
...told newsmen in Chicago: "If Bob Young is looking for a fight, it will be bare-knuckled . . . and no punches pulled. We're not pushovers and we're not punching bags . . . You can't handle the problems of a railroad and be in Palm Beach and Newport." (Young has palatial homes in both places; White lives in a ten-room brick-and-stucco house in Scarsdale, N.Y., is a New York Central commuter.) White also denied that Young is the largest individual stockholder, saying that there is another who owns more shares and "who has been very...