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...Luce mentioned the ugly word to a friend in the Central Intelligence Agency. On a routine trip to Naples he checked with the Navy physicians. Suddenly the gravity of the situation hit home. On their own, the Navy doctors had already sent their findings and laboratory specimens to the topflight laboratories of the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. On the Navy's records the patient was fictitiously identified as Seaman Jones. Back to Italy went the report: Seaman Jones is a victim of arsenic poisoning. The news was relayed to Ambassador Luce while, she was at home during...
Died. Marie Laurencin, 72, topflight French modernist painter, famed for her wispy, pastel-toned portraits of doe-eyed young girls in diaphanous gowns; of a heart attack; in Paris. Prim, red-haired Painter Laurencin tried three times to enter Paris' famed Ecole des Beaux Arts, was coldly blocked. Critics labeled her early work "decadent" and "ugly." After World War I, she changed her style, was later described as the only considerable figure who painted like a woman. ("Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier...
Exuberant Ed Noble, who with Partner J. Roy Allen bought Life Savers for $2,900 in 1913, still holds a controlling interest in the $16 million company he calls a "happy, whimsical little business." A topflight public servant (he was the Civil Aeronautics Authority's first chairman) under Franklin D. Roosevelt, Noble swung the biggest deal in radio history when he bought the old Blue Network (later renamed the American Broadcasting Co.) for $8,000,000 in 1943. In 1951 he traded his 58% stock interest in the network to Paramount in a $25 million share swap, still serves...
Taxiing closer to a prize plum-the New York-Moscow air route-topflight executives of Pan American World Airways last week applied for Soviet visas, expect to be dickering soon in the U.S.S.R. for landing rights. President Juan Terry Trippe is to head the five-man mission to Moscow. For weeks, Pan Am brass has been huddling with Soviet diplomats in Washington, biting away at technical questions, e.g., maintenance facilities, fuel storage, radio navigation aids, passenger and baggage facilities. The Russians, who instigated the talks and appear willing to grant berthing privileges in other cities of the U.S.S.R., invited...
...Fugger. The art of business prediction has come a long way from its starry-eyed origins. But economists admit readily that their prognostications are still largely a matter of educated guesswork. And in the current uncertainty over the economic outlook, guesstimating fever has reached epidemic pitch. Says one topflight Washington economist: "We work by the seat of our pants more often than we like to admit...