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...family. Founded by the late, hard-driving John Hartwell Hillman Sr., who cast cannon balls during the Civil War and moved to Pittsburgh from Tennessee, the Hillman coke-iron-coal-banking-industrial empire now extends over six States. John Hartwell Hillman Jr., who was born in tiny Trigg Furnace, Ky., 57 years ago, is a director in a score of banks, steel companies and other corporations including Pittsburgh's First National Bank and the Chemical Bank & Trust Co. In late years his interests have shifted heavily to small steel companies. Big. camera-shy Capitalist Hillman is publicly sensitive about...
Nearest thing to a spokesman in Berlin for the gold billions in the new U. S. strongbox at Fort Knox, Ky. was distinguished-looking President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp., leader of the U. S. delegation and promptly-elected President of the International Chamber of Commerce. The June issue of Think, International Business Machines' house organ, modestly omits to mention that President Watson was presented to King George VI at a levee during the Coronation period, otherwise is a banner Coronation issue, crammed with 82 pictures of Coronation events and socialites. Facing a full-page picture...
...Having signed the second deficiency bill appropriating $82,000,000, chiefly for TVA, and authorizing that body to start work on a new $112,000,000 dam at Gilbertsville, Ky., Franklin Roosevelt last week packed himself off to spend Memorial Day with his mother at Hyde Park, his first visit with her in four months...
...sources. Contestants indulged in no disputes or blunders of behavior. After five days of play, four of the young men whose names appear regularly near the top of the lists in major U. S. open tournaments went out to play the semifinals. They were Tony Manero and Denny Shute, Ky Laffoon and Harold McSpaden...
Arthur Burton Rascoe came from such acorny beginnings that sentimentalists of success might well have expected his career to achieve oaklike stature. Born (1892) in Fulton, Ky. where his father tended bar, he spent his barefoot childhood in the peaceful democracy of a small provincial town. Shortly before Prohibition shut down on Hickman County, Father Rascoe moved his family to the cruder boom environment of Shawnee, Okla. There Burton grew up with his peers, played football and baseball, fell in love and out again. But inwardly he was not so conformist; at 15 he confided to his journal: "My inward...