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No Hicks. This performance so impressed J. P. Morgan & Co. that the banking firm asked Avery to take over an ailing Montgomery Ward in 1931. Avery quickly put his rough brand of rugged individualism to work at Ward, in three years turned a $9,000,000 loss into a $9...
¶ For undefeated Missouri, rugged End Danny LaRose (6ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.) crashes into the enemy backfield like a runaway tank: "I like to rack the punter. If the fullback tries to block you by going for your legs, run over him the first time. He'll shy...
Died. Harry Ferguson, 75. industrial visionary and inventor who made millions on a handshake agreement with a friend named Henry Ford; apparently of a heart attack; in his remote stone mansion near Stow-on-the-Wold, England. A farm boy like Ford, Irish-born Ferguson saw machines as vehicles for...
The chief advantages of the gas turbine are its simplicity (it has about 80% fewer working parts than a gas or diesel engine) and its compactness (it is only one-third as large as a comparable reciprocating engine and weighs only one-half to one-tenth as much). The gas...
Let's Make Love. A trumped-up plot to bring Marilyn Monroe and France's rugged, gaunt-faced, charming Yves Montand together takes the long way around to Marilyn's arms, since Montand is an unlikely billionaire who wants to be loved for himself alone. The game...