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...again on another big deal. It won Federal Power Commission approval to spend $35 million on converting 1,168 miles (from Baytown, Texas to Moundsville, W. Va.) of the Little Big Inch line to petroleum products, including construction of a $13 million, 230-mile additional 14-in. spur from Seymour, Ind. to Chicago. To continue its present gas deliveries to the East, Texas Eastern will spend another $61 million on loops and compressors primarily along 453 miles of its 30-in. line from Beaumont, Texas to Uniontown...
...dashing Civil War Major General E. Burd Grubb, a West Pointer with an inherited business. He sent her violets daily from his hothouses but never (he had a strict moral code) asked her aboard his transatlantic yacht. The second was a smooth operator known as "P'ison Jim" Seymour. His diabolical advice to Harriet: "Let the men fool around with mines and railroads. See what you can take out of their wives...
...World. Von Teuffel, suggest the violently pro-Harriet biographers, acted at the instigation of P'ison Jim Seymour, who had helped finance Harriet's thriving cosmetic business and wanted to keep his hands on it.* There was a mad cannonade of charges and countercharges: that she was a loose woman, that she took dope, that she was addicted to alcohol and even drank hair dye to get it. Did Seymour hire a model to leave Harriet's offices-"clad only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved...
Footnote. In Dubuque, Iowa, Newspaperman Seymour Kopf, about to publish his book How to Keep Your Job and Be Happy Despite It, wrote an editor: "I analyzed why I, as a newspaperman, had been fired so often. I set down many pointers in the book, and if they are followed, anyone can keep his job forever. At the end of this week, I myself am being fired...
...letter to the New York Times, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages; J. K. Galbraith '99, professor of Economics; John K. Fairbanks '29, professor of History; and Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, charged the Subcommittee with "damaging procedures" in the Tsuru case that have had "serious" repercussions in Japan...