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...Bates Post is not buried in Forest Lawn, he is very much alive, saw him at lunch yesterday...
Listed in TIME'S story on Hollywood's Forest Lawn Cemetery were celebrities buried in its mausoleum, and celebrities who have arranged to be buried there when they die. By error, the name of Actor Guy Bates Post, which should have been the first in the last list, appeared as the last in the first. To Actor Post who, hale and spry, is currently on view in MGM's Maytime, TIME'S sincere apologies...
Pioneer Days. "The early pioneers faced many hardships. . . . Their companions were forest bears, panthers, deer, wolves, wildcats and raccoons. The hoot of the owl drifting on the nocturnal air above the drone of countless insects and the croaking of frogs made the night forbidding. . . . [One pioneer's account] : 'On one occasion I was out with some other gentlemen, John Montgomery, Morgan Thurston and Alex Wilbert in search of a hog which I owned and which was missing, when we were brought face to face with a large she bear and two small cubs...
Like the sap rising in a forest is the morning flow of Manhattanites to work, as packed elevators in tall buildings whisk them upward by thousands to disperse on higher and higher floors. By the time this life has drained out of the office buildings at 5 p.m. and apartment houses and hotels are full for the night, Manhattan elevators have carried 13,000,000 passengers 95,000 miles. In the business of furnishing vertical transportation to New York and other cities, famed Otis Elevator Co. held an unworried near-monopoly from about 1900 to 1926, controlled as much...
...described himself and his two partners-Allan P. Kirby and Frank F. Kolbe-as "just babes in the woods." Last week the "Babes" started out of the woods. Before the luncheon in Rockefeller Center the directors of Alleghany Corp. and The Chesapeake Corp., most substantial trees in the dark forest of Van Sweringen holding companies, met in Mr. Young's swank Park Avenue apartment, voted to merge the two in a new Chesapeake Corp...