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...MacArthur since shortly after he graduated from West Point. Before that I knew his mother and father, and served under the latter in the Philippine Islands. . . . Douglas MacArthur has NOT devoted a lifetime to training for MILITARY leadership. His life has been devoted to training for LEADERSHIP in its widest definition. He has proved his capacity by demonstration, as a soldier, a civil administrator and an executive of civilian affairs...
Died. Joe Clifton Trees, 73, millionaire oil wildcatter; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh. Drill-driving Joe Trees and his lifelong partner, Michael Late Benedum, were probably the widest-ranging, wildest wildcatters in U.S. history: they opened scores of fields from Pennsylvania to California, Oklahoma to British Columbia, made, lost, remade numerous fortunes together...
...Colonus, a 25-to-1 shot ridden by a 17-year-old jockey: the Melbourne Cup, Australia's No. 1 horse race; finishing seven lengths ahead of Phocion and Heart's Desire, both 50-to-1 shots; at Flemington, near Melbourne, Australia. It was the widest walkaway in 70 years, the slowest race (3:33¼ for two miles) in 50 years. Instead of the usual gold cup, Colonus' owner received $650 in war bonds...
Before the war is over, the biggest, widest-spread chain-store business in the world is likely to be run by the U.S. Army. Last year A. & P. grossed $1,378,000,000, Sears, Roebuck grossed $976,000,000. This year the Army's post exchanges will gross about $350,000,000 (in domestic U.S. alone) and that figure is only a starter...
...news, often without fairness or objectivity. But it did speak, by guess and by God, with ringing feeling for the South. Editor McGill fits the pattern. Like Grady, he loves political slugging matches, especially with Governor Eugene Talmadge. Like Grady's, his signed editorial column is probably the widest read in the Southeast...