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...usual, President Lee disclaimed credit. This time the credit went to Joe J. Perkins, multimillionaire merchant and oilman of Wichita Falls, and his wife Lois. The Perkinses had put up $2,500,000 toward the new theology school and, better yet, had handed the school a thoughtful endowment: 50 going oil wells in east Texas...
William D. Rockne, 35, son of Notre Dame's late, famed Football Coach Knute Rockne, was taken to a Wichita, Kans. hospital with bullet wounds in his liver, lung and heart. Police said young Rockne, who spent three years in a mental institution in the '30s, was shot trying to break into the house of a wealthy used-car dealer...
...captive farmer tried to escape at a filling station near Wichita Falls, Texas. He pinned Cook's arms and yelled: "Help me! Help me! He's going to kill me and take my wife!" Cook wrenched free, yanked out his pistol and forced Mosser back into the automobile. Cook and his hostages stopped twice more, once at a filling station in Randlett, Okla., once at Winthrop, Ark., but neither Mosser, his wife, nor his children made any outcry. Two days later, the blue car was foundempty, bullet-pierced and drenched with bloodin the hills...
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There would be little new in the job for 47-year-old Olive Anne. As secretary-treasurer (salary: $35,610), she had managed the company's finances from the start. She also found time to have a family (Suzanne, 13, and Mary Lynn, 10) and to manage Wichita's wartime canteen. When her husband was hospitalized for a year in 1940, she added many of his chores to her own. She got the first Emergency Plant Facilities contract ($2,500,000) from the Government for wartime plant expansion in the airplane industry. In 1943, the New York Times...