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...There are about 10,000 different mailing lists, about 50,000 customers. In 1929 Boyd's listed 620,000 persons rated at $50,000 or more. Last week there were 495,000 such persons on Boyd's lists. Boyd's draws the line at lists of bald-headed persons, of persons suffering from various ailments...
...clothing smoking and his coal afire, Driver Wilson departed in bewilderment. Firemen later extinguished the blaze. By the smoldering bed they found the charred bodies of two Negro men, one Negro woman, all devout disciples of Harlem's bald little Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, May 27, March n, et ante...
Three onetime champions and a group of able youngsters, however, supplied enough upsets and excitement. Chipper Jimmy Caras, always best on birthdays, celebrated his 25th by blanking Joe Procita, 125-to-0. Bland, bald-headed Bennie Allen, three-time champion, dropped one ball after another into the pockets, gave the boisterous onlookers their greatest thrill by making a straight run of 125. Finally, after two weeks of round-robin, the winner: Caras...
...week a remarkable old man resigned as finance committee chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. He will be succeeded in this No. 2 job in the biggest industrial enterprise in the U. S. by a remarkable young man just half his age. The old man was William J. Filbert, bald, popeyed, secretive master of Steel's endless columns of statistics. Presumably he was 70, Steel's compulsory retirement age, since it was inconceivable that Mr. Filbert would quit voluntarily. One of the few ascertainable dates in Mr. Filbert's virtually dateless career is 1881, the year...
Grateful Gloversville honored its stout, bald, walrus-mustached benefactor with a life-size statue of which Mr. Littauer, as a believer in useful monuments, disapproves on principle. Six years ago he established the Littauer Foundation which supports research into pneumonia, cancer, heart disease...