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Died. William Smith Mason, 94, historian and philanthropist who labored for 35 years to collect Benjamin Franklin's papers, donated the priceless collection to Yale in 1936; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
...agent, who in 1940 founded Ohio's Jack & Heintz Inc., makers of aircraft equipment, parlayed a $100,000 initial investment into a Congress-stirring $6,000,000 wartime profit (after taxes) despite boundless employee bonuses (his secretary's 1941 gross: $39,356); after a long illness; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
Nabbed Nabber. In Reno, Patrolman Nolan A. Glahn spotted two suspicious-looking men in the office of the El Rancho Motel, went to investigate, was robbed of $80 and clapped in his own handcuffs...
...bride wore lace and a Juliet cap of pearls; the groom wore a .45 automatic and a ponytail hairdo. Some 2,500 guests thronged the palm-thatched dance-hall restaurant of Santiago's suburban Rancho Club Motel. Thus one afternoon last week Raul Castro, 27, rebel commander in Oriente province, married Vilma Espin, 28, onetime chief of the rebels' Oriente underground in a civil ceremony performed by a Santiago rebel attorney...
Moving in the Troops. Into the sudden news vacuum, the press moved troops. Daily airborne platoons of newsmen landed at Havana's Rancho Boyeros, and the A.P. snapped to military attention: "The Associated Press moved extensive reinforcements into Havana today." Some of the arrivals were trained hands: Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana...