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Died. Ross Lockridge Jr., 33, author of the ambitious, partly successful, best-selling attempt at a Great American Novel, Raintree County; by his own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning); in Bloomington, Ind. Exhausted after seven years' work on the studied, strained, lengthy (1,066 pages) first novel that had finally brought him financial (MGM's $125,000 prize), critical and popular success, Lockridge seemed, at the time of his suicide, to be successfully weathering a nervous breakdown...
Fair Profit. The Aviation Commission of tiny (pop.: 11,738) Columbus (Ind.) reported that the city's airport last year earned $4,225 from the sale of soybeans grown on the airfield...
Norbert Berghoff of Fort Wayne, Ind., the passenger who had spotted him, became the Santa Clara's hero. To the end of his born days, Berghoff would be considered a man with eyes like an eagle...
...Terre Haute, Ind., Lee Wilson turned the crank on the old projector, and later played the piano, in his father's small movie house. He also had a paper route and he played cornet in the Methodist Church orchestra. To pay his way through Rose Polytechnic Institute (in Terre Haute), he shoveled iron ore, laid track for a railroad, and later played semi-pro baseball Sundays and nights...
Died. Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Peter Centennial Brown, 71, wheelhorse pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance era; after long illness; in Terre Haute, Ind...