Miss Sweden Wins
Miss Universe Title
LONG BEACH, Calif., UP) —
Miss Sweden, a Grace Kelly with
muscles, today is Miss Universe,
the world’s most beautiful woman.
The judges, true to form, picked
a short-haired blonde, but there
was little else they could do —
blonde, blue-eyed, 21-year-old
Hillevi Rombin was just that
beautiful.
But the race was a close one
—Miss El Salvador, blonde Mari
bel Arrieta, was only a few points
behind. The other runners up
were—in this order, Ceylon, Ger
many and Japan.
For Miss Sweden—one of the
biggest girls in the contest at 130
pounds—the title means a host of
prizes, most important of which
is a $250-a-week contract at
Universal - International Studios.
“This is one girl that I think
we can really do something with,
movie-wise,” a top U - I official
said.
The record of Miss Universe
winners in the movies has been
rather dismal in the past.
Starting Monday, the new Miss
Universe will start work in “The
Benny Goodman Story” at U-I.
When told of this, she exclaimed
happily:
“I think that’s wonderful, be
cause I’ve always collected his
records.”
Hillevi is a college graduate
and hails from the town of Upp
sala, about a half-hour’s drive
from Stockholm. It is Sweden’s
greatest university town and Miss
Universe is a representative citi
zen. She speaks five languages.
One of the judges disclosed
that it was her reserved bearing,
plus her intelligence, that helped
swing the title to her.
How many beauty contest win
ners • can speak five languages?
She is fluent in German, French,
Spanish, English and her native
tongue.
For those who like statistics,
her vital measurements are 36
inches in the bust and hips, and
23 in the waist.
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BORROWED $20
NOW $2h BILLION
FOOD BUSINESS
Chicago—
On $20 borrowed from his father
a 16-year-old New England lad be
gan the business that now ranks
eighth in the U. S. in sales.
Gustavus Franklin Swift bought
his first livestock with the borrowed
funds and sold the meat to his Cape
Cod. Man., neighbors, 100 years
ago.
In 1954 the business which he
founded—Swift & Company—dis
tributed $2310,000.000 worth of
foods and other products. Swift is
celebrating its Centennial this year.
Famous First—the First Swift Meat
Packing Plant at Barnstable, Mass.
This livestock purchase was a
bold investment in 1855 but young
Swift knew exactly how to go about
making it pay. He dressed the
animal—a heifer—in a barn at
home. His cuts were so good and his
prices so economical that he had no
trouble selling the beef to women of
the neighborhood. He ended up
with a small profit after selling the
heifer’8 hide. From that time on he
was in business for keeps. He be
came known to his neighbors as
“G. F. Swift, deader in meats.”
This was the heifer deal, cele
brated in meat packing lore, with
which Swift begin his career. To
this deal can be traced also the
modern meat industry, shaped by
the methods he established in his
own firm.
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CORDELL HULL
DIES AT 83
WASHINGTON, UP — Cordell
Hull, former Secretary of State
whom many hailed as “the father
of the United Nations,” died Sat
urday he was 83 last Oct. 2.
Death came at the U.S. Naval
Hospital in. Bethesda, Md., where
the elderly statesman had been
taken last foarch 26 after suffer
ing a stroke in his hotel apart
ment. He had another stroke on
Friday.
Hull had long been in poor
health, suffering from high blood
pressure and ailments of old age.
Mrs. Hull died in March 1954.
Until his stroke in March, and
aside from periods of critical
illness in recent years, Hull had
steadily maintained an interest in
national affairs.
As the original sponsor of the
reciprocal trade program, going
back to his days in the Senate,
Hull had been especially inter
ested in U.S. trade polipy and
had closely followed the ups and
downs in Congress of pending
legislation to carry on the trade
program.
Hull, as Secretary of State in
three administrations of the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
held the post longer than any
other man in the nation’s history
—from March, 1933 to November,
1944.
Illness forced his retirement in
the grim days of World War II,
which he had labored to avert,
then labored to use as a spring
board for establishing an endur
ing world peace.
He was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1945 in tribute to
his efforts to develop a world
wide, effective plan to banish
war. These efforts led to creation
of the United Nations.
Hull was in Congress for 24
years—22 in the House and two
in the Senate—before he became
Secretary of State.
Mayor Hauls Dead Dog
When Others Fail
SALT LAKE CITY, WV-One of
the first tenets of leadership is to
never ask a subordinate to do
something syou wouldn’t do your
self. This precept was tested by
M. S. McRae.
A car struck and killed a dog in
front of his residence. First he
called the police to come and re
move the body. They declined and
referred him to the city dog catch
er. But that office didn’t answer.
So McRae called Mayor Earl J.
Glade.
A few minutes later, an expen
sive car pulled up in front of Mc
Rae’s home. The man stepped out,
opened the car’s trunk, and lifted
in the body of the dog.
Then Mayor Glade drove away.
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