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Millionaire John Hay Whitney, 45, has long been known as a sportsman (polo, race horses) and financier (J. H. Whitney & Co., Freeport Sulphur Co.). He has also had a long-standing belief in freedom of opportunity for other people...
Bantam Ben Hogan had played good golf since his comeback last winter (TIME, Jan. 16), but he had yet to win a tournament. In the Greenbrier open tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. this week, he made up for all that. Ben's winning score: a 21-under-par 259 for 72 holes, tying the alltime world record for play on a par-70 regulation course. Said Ben: "I'm picking up where I left...
Every chance he gets, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer tries to persuade the Administration to take the heat off business. Last week, Charlie Sawyer told nearly 700 admen at White Sulphur Springs that they could help the cooling-off process. The way to do it, said the Secretary of Commerce, was for business to win back the political power which it has lost...
...hung Gulf Coast bristles with a staggering concentration of chemical plants-enormous, surrealistic jungles of piping, gleaming spheroids of tanks and stacks-and with miles of great oil refineries, tank farms and factories. The combined Gulf ports handle more export tonnage than New York. Texas produces 80% of U.S. sulphur, almost half of its natural gas, and a lion's share of that Texas delicacy, chili powder. Texans make B-36 bombers in the Consolidated Vultee
...September 1861 Mrs. Chesnut left the charm of "dear delightful Charleston," never so courtly as during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, visited in Richmond with the Jefferson Davises, got to White Sulphur Springs in time to hear about the victory at Bull Run, then moved to Mulberry, one of her father-in-law's plantations in South Carolina...