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...Ladies' Home Journal, Newshen Margaret Parton, after a studious survey of some mountains of gold, announced a list of the U.S.'s ten richest men and her estimates of their fortunes: No. 1: Texas' bachelor Wheeler-Dealer Sid W. Richardson, 65, $700 million. No. 2: Aluminum Co. of America's Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 89 and now a bustling Florida realty tycoon, $450 million. No. 3: Ford Motor Co.'s President Henry Ford II, 39, $400 million. Tied for No. 4: Sun Oil Co.'s publicity-shy Board Chairman Joseph Newton...
Merger of Ideas. Heritage was started by Publisher James Parton, 42, onetime TIME, Inc. and New York Herald Tribune staffer, in collaboration with the Society of American Historians and the American Association for State and Local History. Both the groups had consulted Parton, a publishing consultant, about a history periodical. He persuaded them to pool their learning and capital, helped them raise $68.000 to get started. They decided to accept no advertising, sell single copies only through bookstores, put their product in hard covers...
...Meter. In Toledo, after he was picked up by Policemen Michael Donoher and Calvin Parton for speeding a taxi through several red lights, James O'Reilly admitted the cab was not his explained he tried to hail one, spotted an empty cab with its motor running, hopped in, headed for his destination...
...suit with its own crew, including Inspector Robert Fabian of Scotland Yard, who, repelled by the Hollywood-like atmosphere of the trial, wrote icily: "In the staid atmosphere of the Old Bailey, this would not have been allowed." Even the conservative New York Herald Tribune sent a specialist: Margaret Parton, whose literate, low-keyed reporting, the first such crime reporting she has ever done, was probably the best on the trial. Newsmen, assigned to the story by papers all over the U.S., filled almost every spectator seat in the courtroom...
...literally true, as Biographer James Parton wrote of him, that at 32, only months before he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson "could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play the violin...