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When pudgy, greying Theodore Olin Thackrey started his left-wing New York Compass 16 months ago, on the ashes of the departed Star, he seemed to be well fixed financially. He got $750,000 from 84-year-old Mrs. Emmons Elaine, daughter of Reaper King Cyrus McCormick and cousin of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick, who had given away ten of her millions for various causes and charities. When & if the Compass ran through its nest egg, the chances were good that Aunt Anita would cheerfully ante up again. But last week Editor Thackrey made a sad announcement...
...high voice belonged to Governor J. Strom Thurmond; the gruffer one came from Olin D. Johnston. Both men wanted Johnston's U.S. Senate seat...
...year-old Jean Sibelius need not worry about dying in the poverty which has closed the eyes of many another famed composer.* Since the turn of the century, the Finnish government has guaranteed his board & keep. But this week Composer Sibelius let it be known (through Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times) that he has received "not a penny" in royalties from the U.S., a country whose performances of his music should have made him rich...
...Europe and military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, took over the $96,000-a-year chairmanship of the $250 million Continental Can Co. General Clay resigned last November as president of the Ecusta Paper Corp. after seven weeks' service, when the company was acquired by Olin Industries, whose principal business is the manufacture of cartridges and small arms. Old Soldier Clay thought he should stay out of the munitions business...
Other signers of the statement were: Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Olin Downes, Professor Thomas Emerson, Judge Norval K. Harris, Dr. John A. Kingsbury, Professor Robert Lynd, Carey McWilliams, Professor Philip Morrison, Professor Linius Pauling, Dr. Walter Rautenstrauch, I. F. Stone, and Professor Colston E. Warne...