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...Dallas spur is short when measured against the great era of railroad building. But it is a small indication of the aggressive railroading for which the Santa Fe has been famed ever since the first seven-mile stretch was laid near Topeka almost 100 years ago. By always reaching out for new customers, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway...
...local weeklies or magazines, they were warned by the ad department: "So long as you can get space elsewhere, you don't need it in the Star." One owner of a small clothing store said he was told by the Star that if he continued advertising in Topeka's Capper's Weekly (owned by the late Senator Arthur Capper), his position in the Star would get "worse than ever." He testified that he found his ads buried on the Star's back pages. The Star Co., said other witnesses, also forced businessmen...
Died. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey, 78, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Fred Harvey, Inc., mid-and-far-western restaurant and hotel chain; of an intestinal blockage; in Chicago. Born the year his father opened the first Harvey restaurant at the Santa Fe Railroad station in Topeka, Kans., Byron Harvey grew up with the chain, watched it flourish as his father staffed it with the best-looking waitresses he could find. He succeeded to the presidency himself in 1928, in 26 years tripled the volume of business, served 30 million meals a year in Harvey restaurants, hotels...
...Topeka, Kans...
Speaking to the mental health society in Dallas, Topeka's famed Psychiatrist William C. Menninger deplored the tendency of most Americans to lose sight of the mind in their zeal over certain bodies. "Almost every female in her late teens and 20s knows the chest and waist and hip measurements of Miss America," cried he. "In mental health, unfortunately, we do not have such a widely understood set of goals...