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ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev.--The United States ended its fall nuclear test series Thursday with a record underground blast that ripped a huge hole in the side of a mesa. The climax left scientists weary from days of round the clock effort to finish the series by the deadline time Thursday...
...opposite sides of the continent, a sin spot and a sun spot-Las Vegas, Nev. and Lake Placid, N.Y.-incurred the displeasure of the Roman Catholic Church. The issue...
Hawaiian Holiday. Philco Distributors of Los Angeles recently offered a Hawaiian holiday to its top dealers, retailers and sales personnel, got 100 winners. The program cost $60,000, but it increased sales 30% during the contest period. Bell & Howell this year will give three trips to Las Vegas, Nev. for top salesmen, with the added incentive that head office VIPs will take over their territories, push the least-promising prospects. Some companies offer fully paid trips to Europe...
Beginnings. His Scots-Irish family has been in the machinery-manufacturing business since 1860, when grandfather John McCone started an iron foundry in Virginia City, Nev. His father opened branch plants in Reno, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where John Alex McCone was born Jan. 4, 1902. He studied engineering at the University of California, at Berkeley (B.S., '22), took his first job that year as a riveter and boilermaker with Los Angeles' Llewellyn Iron Works...
...Ohhh, my back," groaned Walter Winchell, 61, as he soft-shoed through a cluster of show girls rehearsing in Las Vegas, Nev. "Feel this corset," said the grand old man of keyhole journalism. "Go ahead, feel it. I've got a torn muscle near the sacroiliac. How the hell am I gonna get over to that side of the stage?" Last week Gossipist Winchell, an oldtime hoofer before he cast himself in the role of a newspaperman, painfully returned for $35,000 a week to his first love-himself on a stage-and it was rough...