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...collected $155 million in life and general (fire, casualty, and marine) insurance premiums, has more than $1 billion in force. From his insurance fortune, Starr can also afford to be a sportsman, patron of the arts and philanthropist. He spent more than $2,000,000 transforming Stowe, Vt. into the Magic Mountain of New England skiing, underwrote the cost of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mad ame Butterfly (TIME, March 3, 1958), and has helped further international relations by annually providing scholarships in U.S. schools for some 20 foreign col lege students...
Down the Draught. In Rutland, Vt., the post office received a letter addressed to "Santa Claus'' and signed by "Cindy" with the message: "I'll leave you a glass of ginger ale, and if you're still thirsty I could leave you two quarts of beer. Remember, my house is the one with the beer...
...success of Auxilium Latinum helps convince Editor Warsley, retired from teaching (by a heart attack) seven years ago, that Latin is not a dead language. "Our households and necessities and tastes have not changed much," he will tell a visitor to his home in West Topsham, Vt. "Did you know that Caesar's favorite breakfast was ham and eggs with a glass of milk?" Auxilium Latinum's 25,000 readers send in a steady stream of inquiries for just such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested...
...Boston last week, famed Grocers S. S. Pierce & Co. were doing a brisk business in an item whose output is sharply limited: "Honegar," a fifty-fifty mixture of honey and apple-cider vinegar, compounded by Mrs. Catherine Perry, using frontier-housewife techniques, at Hartland Four Corners, Vt. And all over the U.S., booksellers were doing equally brisk business with an item in seemingly unlimited demand as well as supply: Folk Medicine, by D. C. Jarvis...
Burlington, Vt., Oct. 21 (UPI).-The mayors of Burlington and Rutland, Vt. said they would buy plane tickets home from Florida at their own expense because the Air Force junket they were on was a "fraud, a terrible waste of tax money." . . ."It's a damned outrage [said Rutland's Mayor Dan J. Healy], an outrage being perpetrated not only on the taxpayers of Vermont, but the entire U.S." . . ."The whole thing is a fraud [said Burlington's Mayor James E. Fitzpatrick], a terrible waste of tax money and our time. We're coming home...