Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1949 — Page 10
1iie"s No Song + For Opera Star
Tow Night—_
Here's What Margaret Truman
_ Faces in Struggle for Career
"By Earl Wilson NEW YORK, Feb, 21—Since Margaret Truman has come into my part of the city—the West Fifties—and given
when she’s finally a big star, singing the role.
“I will go to bed at 9 o'clock with my score—my Bible, “My ohone’s shut off. My husband’s !n another part of the apartment and- must not come near me. All day long next pid
“The night before,” she said,|,.
audience. So many o tole I Today's Best Smile d r PETER DONALD explained the|
ey fn the U. 5.” he says, “a guy starts de “|with a boom and winds up Presi-| skipping away from that!dént. There, a guy's. President Kirsten sald, (and winds up with a boom.” That's
But, ke a- ou see, sacrificed everya- commercial on my Earl, brother,
WAS starting about every three monthal HowTo Relieve
| Bronchitis
us some much-needed class, I've been trying to help her
* with her singing so I can brag that one of our “local girls” keep the atmosphere.
made
good. ; I asked the great soprano, Dorothy Kirsten, out of
Montclair, N. J., about Miss| ion ““lent me $5,000 to study
Truman, and she admired her|in Italy. Later on she cancelled my debt WB Der, as a wedding’
courage, for she said: “ She would find it easier to, be a singer if she were the daugh-| ter of a bootblack.” So a few of you who've sald Margaret's taking advantage of} her White House | position — take i another look at { it, from the view- ! point of a girl "who's battled her way to the top. Years of hard work Me ahead for Miss Truman. Honest criticism will not be easy to get. Social life could tempt her to Miss Truman study less than she should. Right now the best voice instruction: * will be important. “For example,” sald blond, youthful Miss Kirsten as we sat dining at L’Aiglon, “1 started with one man who wasted five years of my life. He didn’t de-
“But I'm grateful he didn’t hurt me. He didn’t teach me the wrong things. People,” she sald, “don’t realize what it Yale tv build 3. volen.”
“WHAT DOES t take?” I asked. “So much. It is not necessary ~ lo study singing in Europe .
wise to her this at her press conference. She gavé a cagy non-responsive
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PROGRESS HIGHLIGHTS
Insurance in force showed a during 1948 of more than $402,
000 to a total of $3,199,862, Tas.
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New business during 1948 amounted to $647,837,436, the greatest amount of paid business in the Company's history.
Ye Admitted assets increased during the by $36,428,325 to a total of $76,356,289. This was the
increase achieved by the Company in a single year.
x * kx to Frost policyholders
grid 7 $4, the year
* 1048 to a total of $32,662,707.
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The Company has paid holders and Comp ciaries since Polleyhold tion $331,929,958.
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The Com tes in 42 of the 48 ten, ¥ District o f Columbia,
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Philippine Is--
lands and Panama Canal has 105 branch offices.
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Growth of LNL By Decades ADMITTED ASSETS 1928 $ . 61,213,946
1938 § 147,947,028 148 § 376,356,289
SURPLUS TO. PROTECT POLICYHOLDERS
1928 $ 5,972,039
1938 § 1,921,462 1948 §
INSURANCE IN FORCE 1928 $ 668,747,143
1938 § 995,423,126 1948 $3,199,862,744
"INCOME 1928 $ 1938 § 1948 §
29,570,913
85,841,722
I might bé playing my records to
“At 4:30 on the button I must | THEN THERE'S the problem have a big steak and a big |bothering every American opera salad. Two hours before the star, . . to performance, I must go to the pay a group to appraud for you Sioster to get madé up and [or not? I asked Miss Kirsten and
“When I speak to anybody that|deeply, but being an honest girl,
32,662,707
she puzzled over it long and||
THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA
Ibs Name Indicates Its Character”
* BALANCE SHEET AS OF DEC. 31, 1948, CONDENSED FROM THE REPORT FILED WITH THE INDIANA INSURANCE DEPT.
RESOURCES
Cash in Bank and Office ............$ 9,597,257.03
Balances are carried in 58 banks.
"Bonds dnd Stocks ......... enn
* The Com holds $72,889,970 in U. 8. Government igs and # 167,146 in Canadian Government gusranteed bonds: $16.802492 of state, provincial, ° a RE utilit ™ 843 in and og
publie utility preferred Stocks and other stocks.
180,639,729.54
trial and $5,984,008 In
Mortgage LOADS ©......coeeneivnnnn. 145,455,714.47
$66,330,003 ‘of these are P.H.A. guaranteed by
loans the U. 8. Government and $33,526,641 are loans guaranteed in part by the Veterans ASmintstration:
Loans to Policyholders .............. + 15,026,555.26
- Balance Due on Properties Sold Under Contract ............cco0vivnnns
Real Estate Held as Investment ..... . Home Office Property .......i.ceuiee ¢ [Interest Due and Accrued ......... Ce
Accrued but not yet due $1,652,507.83; due $119.311.22.
Net Premiums in Course of Collection
Premiums required to complete contract year,
All Other ReSOUICeS ......ccoveneens Total Resourees _. oo $376,356,289.33
*Detalled lst of bonds and stooks will be mailed on
9,127,186.80 1,467,360.96 1,771,909.05
Our Ply Our Poliogholiors
In providing the comfort and
1,731,843.42
10,339,928.81 eve
1,198,803.99
or information concerning natters
LIABILITIES
Policy Reserves ..........c.cceceuuee $293,905,161.53
This is the amount which with interest and tuture premiums will pay all policy claims as-they mature.
Additional Policyholders’ Funds ...... 6,434,137.20 Amounts set aside for or already apportioned te policies in addition to policy reserves . Prepaid Premiums and Interest . ceeeee 8,085,811.21 Claim Reserve ...... tecresesensesss 3,708,421.04 Por claims not yet completed or reported. Reserves For Taxes Payable In 1949 .. ~ 2,152,862.57
Miscellaneous Contingency Reserves .. 27,282,565.85
General investment contingency reserve $2,000,000.00: reserve for stocks and bonds pris 135,584.35; reserve for future revaluation of Policies $19,000,000.00 fty fluctuation reserve $5.000,000.00; contingency reserve for group Iinsurance $146,981.50.
All Other Liabilities .................
Capital ........cone.. $ 5,000,000.00 Unassigned Surplus «wo 27,662,707.23 Surplus to Protect Policyholders______ 32,662,701.23
Total 2 $376,386,209.33
Effect of this reserve is to adjust value of bonds not subject to amortization and soeks to the lower + of the purchase price or market
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As a policyholder you have the
36,985,163
security of sound life insurance protection, your company must serveyou
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As a policyholder you have the right to expect your company to furnish you with a financial statement showing briefly and clearly its condition and progress.
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by your policy.
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"LLOYD 8S. WRIGHT General Agent, Indianapolis Edwin R. Allbright..Inglanspolis Jared Allen ......,.Indianapolis Willard Alledt ......Indisnapolis Harold R. Buxton. ...Shelbyville
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. . Bernard F. Constable. Indianapolis Robert J. Oralg..... Talidonnike Harry L. Glsdden.. Gerald E. Glen.,... Ne apite Marlowe 8. Hawkins, Jr. Richmond William B: Irvine. .... Columbus
Robert IL Kelley. ...Indianapolis John W. MoOoy.... Connersville Thomas L. McCoy... Indianapolis William E. Metzger, Indianapolis Chester CO. Newland, Jr... .Indpls, Robert E. Osborn... Indianapolis
Sanford Romine ....Indianapolis Frank S. Smith, ....Bloomington -- __ Ralph J. Wieneke.......Seymour Gall J. Spangler. ... Indianapolis James W. Spurgeon. . Brownstown Wesley D. Timmons.Bloomington _ Arthur Weidner. ....... Rushville
Howard Wesling. . Indinsiapule
John G. Wilkins. ....Indianapolis William L. Woodard. Terre Haute James O. Wottring. . Indianapolis Joys 8. Wright Jr,. . Indianapolis
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