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...Island amid 28 cars, including four Rolls-Royces-but he still charged his friends 5? for rides to school. From Groton and Yale he crossed the Atlantic to study history and literature at Oxford (a point which should help him in Whitehall). From his first job as a $16-a-week Wall Street buzzer boy, he rose to head the highly profitable J. H. Whitney & Co. (investments). Even as he was getting into the social news with his stable of racers and steeplechasers, his polo playing, his first marriage to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus, and his second to Betsey Gushing...
...confessed, last summer. After his triumphant graduation from Lane Tech, he turned down two fine scholarship offers (U.C.L.A., Hamilton College) because he thought M.I.T. better fitted his talents. Well aware that his parents could not afford to pay the bill (tuition: $1,100 a year), he found a $60-a-week job with Western Electric and began saving his money. Soon he concluded that this job didn't fit his talents either, quit it and tried to land a better-paying one-and failed. Then he had a much brighter idea. "Maybe I wasn't thinking straight...
Iron Tubs & Partnership. Thirty-five years ago Mohan Oberoi landed his first job as $5.50-a-week desk clerk in Simla's Cecil Hotel, part of the British-owned Associated Hotels Ltd. At the time, India's inns had no room service, no running water. Guests bathed in galvanized iron tubs and brought their own servants, who bedded down in the hotel halls. Oberoi learned fast; by 1927 he was chief clerk at Simla's Clarke's Hotel, and a few years later bought a one-third partnership for $2,000 down, $6,000 later...
...earning, high-fashion model, Manhattan's svelte Dovima (a blend of her given names, Dorothy Virginia Margaret), 28, announced that she will soon up her posing rate from a classy $60 an hour to a classier $75. Reason: just like a baseball player, Dovima, a onetime $30-a-week candy counter girl, really wants her golden years to pay off. Lean, long Dovima sighed a prediction: "Photographers still like us as long, lean and thin as ever for fashion. But I think they are looking for a more natural, happy look instead of the gaunt, hard look that prevailed...
Died. Lawrence Dale (Larry) Bell, 62, stocky, square-faced airplane builder, who started (1913) as a $12-a-week apprentice at the late Glenn L. Martin's plane factory, later worked with Aviation Pioneer Donald W. Douglas (now president of Douglas Aircraft Co.) when Douglas joined...