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Snorted Dr. Nathan Shock of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: "If these claims for procaine were true, you'd be adding ten years to your life every time your dentist fills a tooth. This woman is the Pied Piper of 1960, leading the aged instead of the young...
...came to the U.S. in 1947 with his wife and daughter, got a B.A. in mathematics at Ohio State University in 1950, stayed on for 18 months as a graduate student in the business school. He got a job as a security analyst in the Minneapolis brokerage firm of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, quickly impressed clients with the way he could spot a company's potential earning power. With a small group of backers, his first venture was buying a big block of stock in Cincinnati's Balcrank Inc., a maker of equipment for service stations. When his group...
...From Talkeetna came Don Sheldon, 37, one of Alaska's great bush pilots. Airlifting rescuers, Sheldon shuttled dozens of men to a base camp at 10,200 ft., where they began their careful climb. When Crews reported that Mrs. Bading's condition was worsening, Sheldon gunned his Piper Super Cub to an uphill landing on a glacier at 14,500 ft., waited as Crews and another member of his party stumbled down to the plane and then whisked the woman to safety. In another small plane, Anchorage Contractor William Stevenson, accompanied by an Army observer, tried to drop...
...only plane that came was a twin-engine Piper Apache piloted by a U.S. adventurer whom U.S. authorities had been trying to get the goods on since last year. The pilot was Matthew Edward Duke, 45, ex-Navy flyer and ex-husband of Melody Thomson, 35, blonde heiress to a $3,000,000 tobacco fortune. In 1947, Duke hit the skids, got picked up on bad-check charges, then turned to the dangerous game of flying anti-Castro Cubans to U.S. exile...
Cherokee Grandmother. As the Pied Piper of Harlem, Powell has an odd set of credentials. Most of his followers are Negroes; and though the lightskinned, hazel-eyed Powell has represented himself in the past as the grandson of a branded slave, he now says he is not a Negro (his grandmother, he says, was a Cherokee Indian, his other grandparents white). Most of his constituents know the sting of poverty; Powell has never lacked money. His mother, Mattie Powell, was an illegitimate heiress of the Schaefer brewing fortune, according to her son, and his father dabbled in Harlem real estate...