Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goodbye Again. In Toronto, U.S. Consul Curtis Everett finally sent for & received his furniture from Switzerland after six years, immediately got orders to return to his old post in Switzerland...
...civilization of Rome was a fainting glimmer. That year Saint Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order, established its abbey on Monte Cassino-a steady light, on a steep hill, which was ultimately to illuminate all Western Europe. In February 1944, seeking out a German observation post, U.S. bombers demolished the abbey, and put out the light...
...Lynch became a hard-drinking news photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the acrid era of flash powder, singed eyelashes and burning lace curtains. "You could always tell a photographer," he recalls. "One hand would be bound in picric acid gauze, and his eyebrows would be burned off." You could tell Slim Lynch by a shapeless cap, a tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad...
...Pillar & Post. Trade's grandsons, President William and Vice President Robert, are a modem counterpart of the original brothers. Hard-working William, a churchgoer and Shakespeare-reader, once kept his Rolls-Royce in his garage until July so that he would have to pay only half price for a license. Easygoing Robert, 57, plays gin rummy every afternoon, turned down a minister last week who promised to grow a beard if Robert would come to Sunday service. They run the business themselves with little top help from outside, gross an estimated $4,500,000 a year...
...post-World War I slump, G.M. stock slipped from $400 to $12. Durant spent an estimated $90,000,000 trying to bolster it before he finally lost control of G.M. for good. He founded Durant Motors, aiming to start a new G.M. But this time it was no go. He piled up another fortune by playing the stockmarket, but the 1929 crash virtually wiped him out. Later, he went into bankruptcy, listing $250 (the clothes on his back) as his only assets...