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Brand-New City. The financial genius behind Nimba is Swedish Financier Marcus Wallenberg, 64 (TIME, June 7), who saw the opportunities in Liberia and knitted together half a dozen Swedish mining companies and U.S. and German financial interests into a complex consortium called LAMCO-Libe-rian American-Swedish Minerals Co. LAMCO dispatched Geologist Clark to Nimba when almost everyone else in Liberia was searching elsewhere for iron. After Clark's discovery, President William Tubman's government gave the company exemption from taxes and a mining concession until 2023 in return for half ownership of LAMCO. A substantial junior...
...tragedy gave resolution to others. Amid Atlanta's grief, there was talk of establishing an art school as a memorial; there was a new burst of enthusiasm for a proposed bond issue for the establishment of a cultural center of the performing arts. But, as a Presbyte rian minister said: "You can substitute people like that, but you can never replace them...
...editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1920 to 1934. Handsome, well-printed on slick paper, illustrated with color, filled with stories, articles and poems by Rupert Hughes, Lucian Cary, Leonard Nason, Lois Montross, Frederick Irving Anderson, William Hazlett Upson, Valentine Williams, Albert Payson Terhune, Wallace Irwin, Jack Dempsey, Rian James, Gilbert Seldes, American Cavalcade looks the way a good issue of the Saturday Evening Post might look if waste wordage were squeezed out, advertising omitted, the magazine compressed to pocket size...
...White Parade (Fox). Dedicated to the memory of Florence Nightingale, this picture makes a sincere effort not only to dramatize but to glorify the profession of nursing. That it fails to do the first may be because Rian James's story, covering the entire training period of a probationary nurse, seems more like a sentimental prospectus than a moving picture. That it fails to do the second may be because pictures like Night Nurse, Life Begins, Registered Nurse have already acquainted the cinema public with the notion that a pretty girl in a nurse's uniform...
...Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch-the President's pen flew over other decrees of a "Cuba for the Cubans" tone. Already approved...