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...acres, including the home of Henry Ford, and $6,500,000 to start a branch college at Dearborn (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week Arch Rival Michigan State University of East Lansing announced a windfall of its own-the 1,400-acre Oakland County estate belonging to the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. In addition, the Wilsons were kicking in $2,000,000 to endow an M.S.U. branch college on the estate that will emphasize both the liberal arts and engineering. Estimated value of the land and the 50-room Wilson mansion...
...Generation. World War II cut the supply of rich vacationers, forced the Badrutts to tighten up; the Kulm was sold to Swiss Businessman Albert Ernst. But the Palace is still run by Hans's widow Helen, and two sons, Andrea and Hansjurg, and a new generation scrawls its names across the guest book: Henry Ford II, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Hutton. For its 400 guests the Palace maintains a staff of 300, including 40 cooks, who daily turn out half a ton of fancy meats and 1,000 pastries. The wine cellar is stocked with 60,000 fine bottles...
...rubbish. Off Limits mounts hundreds of unrelated, postage-stamp vignettes of the occupation years 1945 to 1951 side by side. Amid the meandering plots and subplots, readers will meet the following unattractive Americans: an intelligence major who forms a sado-masochistic liaison with the Ile Koch-like widow of a concentration-camp commandant, a Jewish captain who allows a German family to stay on in the home he has improperly requisitioned in order to seduce the daughter of the house, a well-meaning colonel who quits rather than carry out the conflicting orders of Washington politicos who all "have rocks...
George gets them. His trials begin with the sudden death of his talented older brother Jeff, who had designed and built the Tower in the West, one of the first skyscrapers in St. Louis. Six months after the fatal accident, George learns that his brother's widow is pregnant by another man. To protect Jeff's good name, he marries her and breaks the heart of true-blue Margaret Carton, who has been patiently waiting for his proposal. George now proceeds to mishandle the affairs of his stepchildren, loses control of his brother's monumental Tower...
...Them All Together. In Turin, Italy, when police arrived to quiet a family quarrel, they got an explanation from outnumbered Bridegroom Antonio Gu-glielmone: just before the wedding, his wife admitted that she wasn't a spinster but a widow with two children, then "finally she admitted that . . . she really had three children, not two. Then as time went by she seemed worried once more . . . and there were four children, not three . . . and then five children, not four ... I was concerned about the speed of the family's growth...