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Died. The Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman, O.S.B., 85, founder and longtime headmaster of Rhode Island's famed St. George's (Episcopal) School and of Portsmouth Priory (Roman Catholic) School; after a heart attack; in Portsmouth, R.I. A onetime Episcopal clergyman, Father Diman joined the Catholic church at 54, entered a Benedictine abbey in Scotland, returned to the U.S. to found (in 1926) the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory...
...snorkel was devised by Manhattan's Duplex Electric Co., which has also installed two others (at the American National Bank of Portsmouth, Va. and St. Louis' Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co.). Colorado State Bank's President B. F. Clark, 89, plunked down $4,000 to get one, spent another $4,000 excavating Teller Gibson's cage. By last week, the snorkel had proved so popular that some 85 customers a day were using...
...time Uncle Charlie gets his copy he is more than ready for it. He reads four daily newspapers: The Portland Press-Herald, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, and the Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald. He also reads other magazines. Having been around long enough to recall the news of Lincoln's assassination and to see Americans march off to four wars, Uncle Charlie has a longer view of the news than most people. He admits, for instance, that Russia is a threat to the U.S., but he wants to wait awhile before making any prognostications about it. "You can't hurry...
Steel for Henry. When Henry Kaiser fell out with Cyrus Eaton, his Kaiser-Frazer Corp. lost its big supplier of steel, Eaton's Portsmouth (Ohio) Steel Corp. To plug the gap, K-F last week paid some $3.6 million for the Phoenixville (Pa.) plant of the Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co., which has a capacity of around 26,000 tons a month of finished and semi-finished steel...
Double Take. In Portsmouth, Ohio. Samuel Keaton was unable to produce for police all the loot he had stolen: some of it had been stolen...