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...colored fountain, but in deference to gamblers with "kiddies," a king-size doll house. It had a temperamental French chef named Maurice who specialized in things served on flaming swords (said one awed gambler: "The guy gets excited over a steak"). It boasted a $22,000-a-week floor show, with a chorus line rivaling Manhattan's Copa Girls, Ray Noble's orchestra, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and a trio of French tumblers...
Died. Generoso Pope, 59, Italian-born New Yorker who rose from $3-a-week water boy to Tammany Hall big shot and publisher of one of the country's largest foreign-language newspapers, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (circ. 78,000) ; after long illness; in Manhattan. With profits from his $8,847,988 Colonial Sand and Stone Co. Inc., Pope bought three Italian-language dailies which he merged into one. After supporting Italy's fascist regime for a dozen years, Publisher-Politico Pope repudiated Mussolini in 1941, was active in pushing the U.S.-to-Italy letter-writing campaign which...
...Otto Adolph Seyferth, 58, became the 23rd president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. A former stone carver and $4-a-week machinist's helper, Seyferth was once president of Michigan's A.F.L. Trades and Labor Council, is now president and owner of the $3,000,000 West Michigan Steel Foundry Co. As a hobby he runs a farm, gives away what he grows, because "if I were to sell [my farm products], I would be making a business of farming. I am in business enough already...
Five years ago, radio had still to hear of Cy Howard. After modest success as an actor in New York and a $70-a-week selling job in Chicago, Howard decided to drop his inhibitions and change his personality. The result? "Last year I made more than $300,000. I'll go over $500,000 this year...
...rated somewhere between Noel Coward and T.S. Eliot. For his part, 42-year-old Fry is taking his success with the same equanimity he has shown through slim years as an actor and schoolteacher. With his wife and twelve-year-old son, he still lives in a 6s.-a-week cottage in a Cotswold village, 28 miles from Shakespeare's birthplace, without telephone, electricity or gas. He works through the night by kerosene lamp, drives to London, only when he has to, in a small, secondhand...