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...heyday, "Lee Hig" was one of the kingpins of finance both in the U.S. and abroad. Set up in 1848 in a tiny State Street office by Lawyer John Clarke Lee and his cousin, Boston Merchant George Higginson, Lee Higginson over the years financed the development of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and other Western railroads, built several Boston fortunes by developing the fabulous Calumet & Hecla Copper Mine in Michigan. The firm helped put together General Electric in 1892, led the financing of the struggling General Motors...
...misty backwaters of Indian legend, a fierce prairie tornado struck the Potawatomi tribe encamped along the Kansas River. The dead were buried on and around the 250-foot hill that is now called Burnett's Mound, on the southwestern edge of Topeka, and the Great Spirit was enjoined to protect the place forever from the twister's deadly cone.* Topeka's immunity to catastrophic tornadoes had itself become a legend until 7:13 one evening last week, when most citizens were at dinner. By the time they would have been clearing the table, 15 were dead...
...midtown Topeka, one of the few large structures left standing for blocks around was a ten-story insurance building audaciously emblazoned "A Refuge in Time of Storm"-yet it too was gutted, and may have to be razed. Buses at the city depot were piled one atop the other like crushed ants. At the airport, 15 light planes lay scattered, stamped flat. Though the state capital lay outside the storm's path, the pressure shattered windows and smashed a hole the size of a locomotive in the dome. Total damage: at least $100 million...
...that Bell is a stranger to the U.S. scene. After graduating from the University of Kansas, he went to work for TIME as Topeka stringer, later joined our Chicago bureau...
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