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This week Major John Weir Foote, heroic "Padre X," who won a Victoria Cross at Dieppe (TIME, Feb. 25) was to sail from Halifax on a special mission: he would take the bones back with him to France, see them ceremoniously buried in a cemetery near Falaise. Said an official statement...
...business which U.S. Steel lost, it got its tax bill cut in half; it also paid off $114,000,000 on war plants. Result: net profits were down only to $57,000,000 v. $61,000,000 in 1944. Bethlehem Steel did even better. C.I.O.-hating Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel came up smiling with a boost in profits...
...Belvedere, which two other divisions had attacked in vain. There died Torger Tokle, the towheaded ex-Brooklyn carpenter who became America's greatest ski jumper. The loth, only U.S. division trained for combat on skis, boasted names big in American skiing: Walter Prager, Percy Rideout, Don Goodman, Weir Stewart, John Litchfield. This winter many of them will be back in competition...
...minded that he forgot his stethoscope when he called late one night to listen to the heart of a lady patient. He leaned down, listened, fell asleep and remained there almost half an hour. The lady thought it "an exceptionally thorough examination." Another famed Philadelphia doctor, S. (for Silas) Weir Mitchell, was a successful novelist, an expert on snake bites, and a pioneer U.S. neurologist. When his own nerves gave way, he rushed to Europe, consulted a Viennese specialist, was told: "In your own country is the man who can do you most good. His name is Dr. S. Weir...
Born. To Ernest Tener Weir. 69, chairman of National Steel Corp. (No. 6 U.S. producer) ; and Mary Hayward Weir, 28, his third wife, onetime secretary in his New York office: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: David Manson. Weight...