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For the weekend Willkie went to New York City to tour Democratic Brooklyn. His voice was tattered to a rasp. Still he refused to make a Fourth-of-July speech, still turned down the pleas of politicians to let loose with a ring-tailed, rabble-rousing rannygazoo.
Since the outbreak of World War II, a hearty old Londoner named J. R. B. Branson has urged his countrymen to eat grass, save food supplies (TIME, July 1). Last week British papers published the sad fate of a zealous grass-eater, one John William Bloomfield, 60, of Harleston, Stowmarket...
Died. Franklin Henry Hooper, 78, editor emeritus of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; of injuries when he was hit by a truck; in Saranac Lake, N. Y. After supervising five Encyclopaedia editions as managing or U. S. editor, he became editor-in-chief in 1932, retired two years ago. A dauntless pedestrian...
Across a trial table in Cleveland's Common Pleas Court last week two aging tycoons, once inseparable friends, faced each other in bitter litigation. Plaintiff was tiny (5 ft. 3) Frank A. Seiberling, board chairman of Seiberling Rubber Co.. keen and dapper despite his 80 years. On the...
Last month two events quickened its pace. One was National Defense. As U. S. heavy industry began stirring from its ten-year sleep, many a holding company with arrearages on its preferred stock faced the problem of raising new money, building new generating capacity. The other was a new policy...