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Talk story about an auction at Christie's, in London, of "Finest and Rarest Wines," the crowning feature of which was a hand-blown bottle engraved …
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PROFILE of London Metropolitan Police Force Constable Peter Roland Sawyer, who is attached to central London's Chelsea police station. Tells about …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Job Corps Center at Camp Kilmer, N.J., which uses part of the old Army post. The Job Corps is a national program …
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Second PROFILE of Captain Blackburn, the oldest pilot (59) flying international routes for Trans-World Airlines. The first PROFILE ran May 5, 1956, and …
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Writing in 1962, John Bainbridge tells the story of the Berlin Wall’s first year—and of the East Germans who tried to run, drive, swim, and tunnel to the other side.
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PROFILE of Texas. Not only the Texas landscape is changing but also the figures on it. Where is a latter-day Super-American sufficiently picturesque to be …
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PROFILE of Texas. One Texas millionaire who has long been fascinated by the ways of chance is Ralph Lowe, who'll bet on anything. A few years ago he …
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PROFILE of Texas deals with millionaires' homes, gardens, parties, gastronomy, drinking, society & position of women. Most of the homes are not …
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PROFILE of Texas and its oil industry. Most Texas million aires are in oil. The industry is young, inventive, brash, enterprising, powerful, well …
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Part 1 of John Bainbridge’s portrait of the state and its millionaires, oil tycoons, and fixation on size.
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John Bainbridge and Brendan Gill observe the great Southern author William Faulkner as he writes in Random House’s New York offices.
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PROFILE of Alfred Carlton Gilbert, founder & president of the A.C. Gilbert Co., which manufactures Erector Sets, American Flyer Trains, and, dozens of …
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PROFILE of Toots Shor, prop. of the restaurant by the same name, which some of its patrons have called The Temple of Friendship. The members of the Shorian…
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PROFILE of Lewis D. Gilbert, crusader for small stockholders. In 1937 he suggested that Bethlehem Steel retire Chares M. Schwab, who was then chairman of …
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Profile of Lewis D. Gilbert, crusader for minority stockholders, who for the past 15 years has devoted all his time to attend stockholders, meetings. For …
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Profile of Alfred CArl Fuller, founder of the Fuller Brush Co. Fuller, an ardent Christian Scientist, was born in Nova Scotia. His forebears came from …
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PROFILES of Mrs. Margaret Rudkin, president of a baking firm called Pepperidge Farm Inc. One thing that can be said of Pepperidge bread is that it will not…
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PROFILE of William W. Smith 11, & Robert Lansing Smith, of Smith Brothers Cough Drops. All the employees grew beards for the centennial. Mr. Shaw and Mr. …
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PROFILE of Max Sherover, president of the Linguaphone Inst of America, Inc., tells about the Institute's foreign language courses; about well-known …
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PROFILE of Reuben Maury, chief editorial writer for the News since 1926, and editorial writer for Collier's since 1938. In Collier's editorials, he…
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PROFILE of DeWitt Wallace, founder & editor of The Reader's Digest. Breakdown of circulation; American, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish,…
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PROFILE of DeWitt Wallace, owner & editor of the Reader's Digest, presented as though written by one Nicholas Popkov, a Russian, who was supposed to …
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PROFILE of DeWitt Wallace, editor of the Reader's Digest. Biographical sketch of his father, Dr. James Wallace, who was a scholar of Greek & Latin, and…
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PROFILE of Milton Caniff, originator of "Terry and the Pirates." 14% of the men & women in this country have a favorite newspaper columnist; 51% have a …
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Profile of Major George Fielding Eliot. With a friend named Colonel R. Ernest Dupuy, who had been his collaborator on some pulp stories, the Major …
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PROFILE of Daniel Arnstein. To help the Burma Road mission, Arnstein picked a couple of his friends Harold C. Davis, vice--resident of the Consolidated …
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PROFILE of Daniel Arnstein. John D. Hertz, the founder of the Yellow Cab Co., gave Arnstein his first job-that was in 1909, when Hertz was running the …
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REPORTER AT LARGE About the Civilian Technical Corps. In response to a speech made by Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Minister of Supply, addressed to …