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...countryside: old Herman Gutterman got some new charred oak kegs so he could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail. Red Currie got number 45F8575, a pair of stylish Sizzle Pants for $3.65. Sylvester Merrick, colored, got a new clothesline. Ira Pirtle ordered some rubber collars ("easily cleaned with a damp cloth,") number 33F8244, at three for 60?. The Widow Holcomb sent for a bottle of Youth Tone black hair dye, 8F3882, for $2.29. -Behind these orders lay the aspirations, tastes, customs, needs of a drowsy, mismanaged, tough Oklahoma country town...
...Annenberg Howard, 26, daughter of Publisher Moses Louis Annenberg of Daily Racing Form, Miami Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer (TIME, Aug. 10); and Manhattan Lawyer Joseph Harrington Hazen, 38, assistant to Cinemagnate Harry Morris Warner; at Great Neck, N. Y. Simultaneously wed were her sister, Mrs. Enid Annenberg Bensinger, 29, and Ira Haupt, 47, Manhattan stockbroker...
That statement split Commissioner Carpenter and Pacific Mutual's old management. Promptly to bat went four officers and directors of old Pacific Mutual, including 73-year-old George Ira Cochran, president of the company for 30 years until last autumn when he was moved to the chairman's seat to make room for President Kemp. In a complaint to set aside the reorganization, they accused Commissioner Carpenter of inexperience, charged that he had sprung the reorganization on them without due warning. Next move of Commissioner Carpenter was to file a $511,650 suit for misuse of Pacific Mutual...
...Moody met a hymn-singing Collector of Internal Revenue named Ira D. Sankey. "Where are you from?" exploded Moody. "What is your business? You will have to give that up. I have been looking for you for the past eight years." Though they actually wrote few hymns, Moody & Sankey became as famed as Gilbert & Sullivan through promoting such collections as Gospel Hymns & Sacred Songs. At one time their hymns earned $35,000 royalties in a few months. In 1873-75 the evangelists toured the British Isles, spoke and sang before 2,500,000 people...
...pleased pilot was the Army's famed Major Ira T. Eaker, onetime co-holder of the world's endurance flight record. Five days previously he had taken off from New York with only his dashboard, his radio compass to guide him. For safety's sake a second plane convoyed him all the way, giving occasional information by radio. There were eight stops. Said Pilot Eaker: "We had two 'incidents.' Both were thunderstorms, and both were second hand as far as I was concerned...