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Northfield Mills. This mill, with 170 to 200 employees, in Northfield, Vt. (pop. 2,262), is owned by Goldfine but bossed by long distance by Goldfine Secretary Mildred Paperman. In November 1950 the Vermont secretary of state dissolved Northfield's charter because the company had refused to file an annual report. Northfield was reincorporated...
Among the rich racketeers who commute to their showplaces in the western Chicago suburb of River Forest (pop. 12,500), none lives in higher style than Anthony Joseph Accardo, 52, top banana in the crime syndicate founded by the late Al ("Scarface") Capone. Tough Accardo's $200,000 stone and concrete mansion, designed like a combination pleasure dome and pillbox, offers various conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, two bowling alleys, a pipe organ, a roof garden where strolling violinists play dinnertime waltzes, vast reception rooms, six master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special...
...silver-haired Donald Strang, for one, would not be terrified. Strang, 56, turned up to tell what happened when a mob-run local of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union staked professional pickets around his Howard Johnson restaurant at suburban Niles (pop. 15,000) in 1952. Items...
...every tourist knows, London's horse guards take the vow of silence on duty. As they sit majestically astride their mounts in Whitehall, children may taunt them, cameramen may pop flashbulbs in their faces, and tourist guides may speak about the guardsmen as if they were not really there. The guardsman is under orders never to move a muscle except to control his horse, never to speak except to summon a policeman or foot sentry "if something happens." For almost 300 years it has been that...
Nebraska Farm Boy. These basic facts of genetics were becoming known about the time Geneticist George Beadle was born in 1903. His father ran a small, progressive farm near Wahoo, Neb. (1900 pop. 900). His mother died when he was four, leaving him, his brother and sister to be mothered, after a fashion, by a succession of hired housekeepers. He remembers farm life in general with pleasure, but he still dislikes cream because he had to skim it off endless milk pans...