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...Sandringham, in Norfolk, near The Wash, the King's farmers clucked to the King's horses and turned the King's sod as they and their fathers did for George V and his father, Edward VII. The King was born in York Cottage, Sandringham, and his father died there...
Everette Lee De Golyer, 57, of Dallas, is perhaps the world's greatest oil geologist. Born in a Kansas homesteader's sod hut, he became the founder of a U.S. crude oil producer (Amerada Corp.), a director of Dallas' plush First National Bank, and the man whom the industry reverently calls "the father of geophysical exploration in the U.S." This man was the man whom Harold Ickes recently sent to survey U.S. oil properties in the Middle East, and who now attempted to explain to Americans why the U.S. is dabbling in Middle East...
...true university approach to aviation goes a long way beyond motors and wings. Just how far it goes was suggested last week as the University of Illinois got ready to turn the sod on what will be the No. 1 university-owned airfield in the U.S. The 800-acre, $2,500,000 Champaign County field will be the center of many kinds of research. Possibilities...
...office boom itself is not quite so anarchic as it looks. Most of the season's horrors, though often an unconscionable time a-dying, have died. Of 33 shows that have opened, 19 are under the sod. It is largely to plays of a certain age-last season's Star and Garter, The Doughgirls, Janie and a raft of others-that Broadway's rich playboys & girls still pay lucrative court...
...nearby Lynchburg the sod was fresh on the grave of William G. Suhling, former captain-elect of Virginia's football team, Marine volunteer killed in California flight training. Also dead were former football captains John Acree (killed in Pacific naval action), Lewis G. Reiss (killed in Army flight training), 57 other fighting alumni...