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...charge of a new department to handle defense contracts. The contracts rolled in so fast that six months later, when Percy was 21, he was in charge of the major part of Bell & Howell's business. Just before he joined the Navy as a seaman, McNabb made him assistant secretary and a company director...
Mark of Affection. In Long Beach, Calif., Seaman Rudolphus Hill refused to prosecute the jealous lady friend who had laid his scalp open with a beer bottle: he was "happy to know I affect women that...
Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid
...been assigned. He saw row upon row of hot and hideous tin roofs sloping away toward the sea, and a ringing clang came to his ears as a vulture perched heavily on top of the hotel. Down at the quayside, pickaninnies swarmed like little vultures around a newly landed seaman and triumphantly escorted him to the local brothel...
...Peace to All Men." Other things came out too. This was not the first time that Brown had claimed a wonder-working discovery. Born in Portugal of a U.S. seaman father, he had owned a drugstore in New Bedford, Mass., but had also run a "clinic" where patients were treated for everything from cancer to polio. On Nov. 13, 1939, he had been fined $1,000 for illegal practice of medicine, later had the sentence nullified. John Brown says he was framed...