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...wealthy utilities man. It was a wonderful time and place to grow up in. Only two doors away Charles F. Kettering was working on a magical invention that would start autos automatically; Orville Wright skittered around in one of the first airplanes. Young Victor caught the speed fever, too. After graduating from Longfellow grade school and St. Mary's College (now the University of Dayton), he went to Cornell. But he spent less time on studies than driving around the countryside. (His taste in cars used to lean towards Rolls-Royces; now he owns a Lincoln.) When World...
...will be thinking of that day several years from now when the seemingly inexhaustible consumer demand created by wartime shortages has dried up? When, in a few years, the reservoir of investment opportunity has been fully exploited, when the building boom dies from natural causes, when the consumer fever cools from surfeit or a shortage of cash, there will be a bust that will make 1929 look like a temporary recession...
When Anthony Lombardi Jr. was six years old he was put to bed, his heart critically weakened by rheumatic fever. For the next six years he seldom left his sickroom. Through the open window he could hear his friends playing outside on Denver's Quivas Street; sometimes, when he was propped up in bed, he could watch them. Then, at night, he made elaborate plans for all the things he would do when he got well...
...extraordinary caucus were such practiced pork-barrelers as Tennessee's cob-nosed Kenneth McKellar, Mississippi's Bilbo and Rankin, Louisiana's paunchy John Overton. Bilbo, still convalescing from inflammation of the mouth (see PEOPLE), apologized for his inability to orate. Overton, running two degrees of fever, left early. But others jumped up to accuse Harry Truman of defying the will of Congress...
...with these breeds seems to be lack of built-in air conditioning. Cattle have no sweat glands. On hot days, they cool themselves by the energy-consuming process of breathing hard and evaporating moisture from their lungs. When the temperature goes above 95°, they run a two-degree fever. Instead of grazing in the broiling Southern sun, they prefer to stand idly in the shade and go hungry...