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Just a few years back, Don Over was a craps dealer in Las Vegas, Merlyn Mickelson was a disk jockey in Wadena, Minn., and Al Maisin was a long shoreman in San Francisco. Today all three have one thing in common: they are millionaires. Becoming a millionaire is still an eminently realizable goal for many Americans, and many of them -like Over, Mickelson and Maisin - start the journey with little or no capital and reach the magic $1,000,000 mark well before they are 45. In the past decade, about 5,000 new millionaires have been added...
Died. Harold Knutson, 72, longtime Republican U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1917-49); of a heart ailment; in Wadena, Minn. Norwegian-born, he succeeded Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the flyer, in Congress, cast his first vote in 1917 against a declaration of war on Germany, was a leading isolationist before and after Pearl Harbor, stoutly fought the Democrats and all their works on almost every issue,* including the easing of immigration restrictions...
...will see action for the Crimson this winter are forwards Gerry Johnson of Newburyport High and the NROTC; Brewster Wolfe of Milton Academy and Lowell House; Jack Noble of Exeter and the V-12; Ronald Wright of Pawtucket High and the V-12; guards Clyde Kelsey. Jr., of Wadena High, Minnesota and the NROTC; and Herb Fritts, of Richmond Hill, New York and the NROTC
...retina. Result: blindness. Eye surgeons recently perfected the operation of replacing such a clouded cornea with a corneal graft from the useless eye of an-other human being (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week Dr. Ramon Castroviejo of Manhattan performed that operation on the left eye of Fremont Clark of Wadena, Iowa with this new twist: Instead of waiting for another patient to give up his cornea, Dr. Castroviejo gave Mr. Clark the cornea of a still-born baby...
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