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...Crop. Florida's new kind of boom has cast up a new crop of millionaires. One of the top citrus men is Tom Swann, 52, who runs the groves and concentrate plant for Florence Foods, a big growers' cooperative, and also has 1,600 acres in groves of his own. In the state's growing cattle business, the biggest force is Florida's Lykes family, headed by John Wall Lykes (66) and nephew Charles (37). The Lykeses who also own the Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., largest shipper under the U.S. flag (54 cargo ships operating...
Only a sprinkling of Americans have dared to join in and two, manager Bruce Brogan and Johnny Swann, have made this year's team...
Proust's "Swann's Way" ("Badly written...
...mind that congeals mine at a distance and whose lucid brilliance keeps mine muscle-bound as it were and reduced to impotence.") Trying his hand as a publisher, Gide pulled one of the greatest boners in literary history when he turned down a first novel by Marcel Proust: Swann...
During the projected flights, Dr. Swann will measure the frequency and direction of the rays at various altitudes and latitudes, using electronic instruments which register when a ray hits them, and tell the direction it came from. The Army's experiments will be more immediately practical. They will expose various metals and other materials to the rays, at high altitudes, and try to determine how they are affected by them. Such information should come in handy, the day rockets swoosh out above the atmosphere...