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President of Packard Motor Car Co. since 1916, Alvan Macauley is a handsomely bronzed, courtly gentleman of 67 who collects fine guns, enjoys skeet shooting and British novels. At Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, he maintains just such an estate as prestige-conscious Packard ("Ask the Man Who Owns One") likes...
Julien Poydras, son of poor peasants at Nantes in France, loved a peasant girl. She had no dot, he had no money, and her parents took the French view of love without francs. Deprived of his intended, young Julien in 1768 took his heart to America, in Louisiana rose from...
Pointe Coupée eventually diverted its inheritance to building a school, but except in the Civil War years, West Baton Rouge annually had distributed the interest on Julien Poydras' money to dark, full-breasted Creole brides. Of the $2,400 or so paid each year, the poorest brides...
In Louisiana last week a privately financed machine harvester made its appearance, proved that it could cut sugar cane. It was invented by Allan Ramsey Wurtele, a onetime navy officer and chief engineer of the Federal Barge Lines, who put it together on his sugar plantation in Pointe Coupee parish...
Donald D. Matson, Altadena, California; Bruce Shopard, Alton, Illinois; Olof H. Pearson, Boston; Laurence L. Stuppy, Los Angles, California; William S. Fields, Flushing, New York; Maurice Franks, Lawrence; Carl C. Johnson, Schenectady, New York; Albert P. Heusner, York, Nebraska; Joseph H. Phillips, Dearborn, Michigan; Francis McC. Ingersoll, Tecumsch, Nebraska; Calvin...