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...place the Ganos had never heard of-Keokuk, Iowa. Son of a Harvard-bred lawyer, he was expelled from several schools, but got through Harvard and hung out his shingle in Joplin, Mo. The lure of oil drew him to Texas. He made a small stake, bought a long Peerless car, met Allene Gano, married...
Hughes Sr. converted his Peerless into a speedster (see cut), raced it against one owned by Financier Hetty Green's son, and won. He raced against Barney Oldfield, the celebrated professional, and lost. The Hugheses moved to Houston, where Hughes Sr. looked for oil. With his partner, Walter Sharp, he struck oil in the Goose Creek field, but the two-edged "fishtail" bits used in those days broke on subterranean rock. Thereupon Hughes designed a conical bit with 166 cutting edges. That tool is the original source and still the main prop of the Hughes fortune, which now amounts...
...fiercely competitive U.S. automobile industry, an ailing company seldom gets a chance for a comeback. The industry's history is studded with once famous names (Hupmobile, Chandler, Peerless, Winton, Pierce-Arrow, etc.) which went under. Nine years ago it looked as if Hudson were limping down the same rocky road to dissolution...
...Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens the impossible had happened. Olympic Champion Barbara Ann Scott, at the end of the opening number of her first performance since she returned from Europe, had slipped and fallen, duff-first, on the ice. Until that night last week, peerless Barbara Ann had never taken a tumble in public. She picked herself up, got an ovation from the crowd, skated away. Said the Ottawa Journal soothingly: "It didn't matter...
...Hurok, the Little White Father of ballet in America. Last spring Miss Chase canceled her contract with Hurok and took her troupe to London, where they packed Covent Garden for two months. Thereupon Manager Hurok imported the Russian troupe from South America and bolstered it up with the peerless Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks of London) and other favorites. Then the two companies booked parallel autumn seasons, and the battle...