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...opens the whole show May 27, he will use a beam of starlight from Arcturus instead of a bottle of milk, a beam that started towards the earth the year Chicago last held a world's fair. That was in 1893, only 40 years ago, but the party Rufus Dawes and his brother Charles and their Chicago friends are giving this year to (they hope) 50 million guests, is "A Century of Progress," referring to Chicago's founding...
...when William McKinley called him to Washington to become Comptroller of the Currency, Brother Charles called Brother Rufus up from Marietta to run his gas companies. When he came back to found Central Trust Co. of Illinois in 1902, Rufus became cashier. Brother Henry came along a few years later, has been on the job ever since. Brother Beman was the family playboy. The others graduated from Marietta College at 19; Beman did not graduate at all. He organized one of the nation's great oil companies (Pure Oil), then left most of its management to Henry. Beman preferred...
When Father Dawes's health began to fail in 1889, it was Rufus who took over his lumber business, saw the family through the next few years, Charley was away in Nebraska, Beman and Henry were too young. Wrote the father in 1890: "Rufus will pull the stroke oar over the coming year in our business. . . . He shows excellent judgment and great capacity...
...lets him explode, then goes ahead to do what should be done. In the early days of the Fair he wanted to allot $10,000 a year for publicity. Cried Charley: "Damn it. just do something. Then the newspapers will publish it. The hell with spending that much money!" Rufus said nothing, allotted the $10,000 when the time came...
...Rufus Dawes smokes his pipe right side up. An able public speaker, he dislikes society and ceremony but has had to get used to them in his present job. Tall, long of face and nose, at 65 he is slightly stooped and his grey hair is thinning. His brown eyes twinkle benignly through horn-rimmed pince-nez swung from a black silk ribbon. He picks his suits carefully and well, wears them neatly pressed and with ties more harmonious than Brother Charley...