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...hereby give my entire estate," ran the will of Edgar H. Donne, 70, who lived & died in a one-room shack on a barren Michigan farm, "to Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, screen actress, whose stage name is Greta Garbo, to her and no other." Neighbors recalled that Donne had once bought himself some new clothes and set out for Hollywood; after he got back he never talked about it. He once wrote Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000. Postscript to the will: "If Greta Garbo...
...steel industry, roaring along at 94.1% of capacity, was turning out far more steel than in any peacetime year. Many a prosperous company upped its-dividend, e.g., Du Pont from $1.25 to $2 and International Harvester from 65? to $1. Despite the worst freight-car shortage in 20 years, Barren's latest Weekly Production Index held at 117, within one point of the postwar peak...
Died. Kenneth Craven Hogate, 49, hefty Hoosier publisher of the Wall Street Journal, president of Barren's Publishing Co., chairman of Dow, Jones & Co., Inc. (financial ticker service), close friend and 1944 presidential campaign adviser of Thomas E. Dewey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...decades since this man, who might have been great, held a stop watch on the Eternal and hurled a childish challenge at God to strike him dead. Could 20 barren years be the answer to that prayer...
...city that prides itself justifiably on its educational facilities, industry, and world trade to be so journalistically warped and barren seems paradoxical. What accurate and adequate coverage manages to penetrate the formidable perimeter must come from the New York papers and the Christian Science Monitor, a sectarian newspaper with a minute 15,900 copies distributed locally...