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Miami's McGregor Smith, president of Florida Power & Light Co., has one yardstick of the area's growth−and his faith in the future. In the last ten years Smith, who has done as much as any man to lure new industries to Florida, has spent $151 million on expansion, more than doubled the company's capacity to 503,000 kilowatts. In the next ten years, for another $332 million, he expects to triple capacity...
...minor part, Herbert McGregor gives one of the evening's major performances, wry and crisply professorial. Director Theodore Gershuny had good luck with two of the play's liberals, Homet and McGregor, but he should remind Steven Banker that he is playing a hot-headed college radical. Banker is neither earnest nor intent enough; he appears always on the verge of a smile...
...tired old man, plagued by debt and long riddled with cancer, moved one day in June 1885 into a small woodland cottage at Mt. McGregor, N.Y. Many a biographer has recorded the last days of Ulysses S. Grant at that cottage, but few have known them as well as Hungarian-born Historian Stefan Lorant (Lincoln-A Picture Story of His Life-Harper; $6). Last week Lorant presented the source of his knowledge to West Point-a packet of manuscripts that he had bought from Grant's descendants. Among the manuscripts were nine tragic little notes, penciled by West Pointer...
...spite of his pain ("Oh, I can't stand it! I must die! I must go!" he once cried), the ex-President seemed to have one final ambition at McGregor: to recoup his family's fortune by completing his memoirs.* On sunny days, supported by his black cane ("I scarcely ever use my cane in going about my room," says one note. "Often when I go out, I have to look about for it to find it"), he would struggle out of the house to sit for hours on his porch, poring over his work. Though weak...
...After trouncing U.S. Davis Cuppers Seixas and Trabert, Australia's Sedgman and McGregor...