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Emanuel ("Manny") Rosenbaum has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1896. A loud, baldish Jew of 60, he likes to boast of the fact that...
...Tall, baldish, 44, Editor Kiplinger makes no bones about his status as a layman, "not an expert, not an 11th degree economist, not a technician in the upper realms of economic theory." Indeed, he believes his value to businessmen derives from the fact that "he lives and works in the earthly gardens." And in Letter No. 25 he asks that his conclusions and suggestions be challenged, leaving two blank pages for the reader's notes. Probably he will be challenged most frequently not on his conclusions but on his use of the word "inflation." What he has largely...
...Author. It would be news if a first-flight German author still lived in Germany. Bruno Frank, like most of his colleague-compatriots, does not, is settled in comfortable exile at Sanary, on the Riviera, near his fellow-exile, Lion Feuchtwanger. Big, baldish, blond, Bruno Frank looks like a professional wrestler, lives with the precise routine of a German Ph.D. (which he is). For years a best-seller in Germany, he was until recently one of the most popular German playwrights. He enjoys eating, drinking, smoking; dislikes noises, hypocrites, badly-bound books. He is at present in London, writing...
...tour opened in Manhattan. Lean, spidery, baldish but still as spry as ever, Tilden started the evening by beating Lott at singles. At doubles, Lott & Stoefen won the first two sets, the second 16-14. Apparently exhausted, Tilden suddenly came to life, helped his partner Vines pull out the third set, 13-11. What happened then amazed a crowd of 15,000 who were getting ready to go home before midnight. Knowing as well as Promoter O'Brien that a victory for Lott & Stoefen would help the tour's gate receipts, Tilden & Vines suddenly became invincible, smashed through...
...Baldish. a bachelor, with a high, nervous voice. Author Wilder writes like an educated angel, talks like an educated Poll, still feels that he has much to learn...