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Tall, sandy-haired, crinkly-eyed President Mackie has held office since January 1936. Born in Frankford, Pa. 58 years ago, President Mackie went to Princeton Theological Seminary, spent a quarter-century in a church in a Philadelphia suburb called Sharon Hill, where he organized what is supposed to be the only church-owned country club in the U. S. complete with clubhouse, swimming pool and 18-hole golf course. He forged to the front in Fund affairs in 1930, when he fought a revival of the Wanamaker movement, won a court battle for a place on the board of directors...
...second most powerful family. Founded by the late, hard-driving John Hartwell Hillman Sr., who cast cannon balls during the Civil War and moved to Pittsburgh from Tennessee, the Hillman coke-iron-coal-banking-industrial empire now extends over six States. John Hartwell Hillman Jr., who was born in tiny Trigg Furnace, Ky., 57 years ago, is a director in a score of banks, steel companies and other corporations including Pittsburgh's First National Bank and the Chemical Bank & Trust Co. In late years his interests have shifted heavily to small steel companies. Big. camera-shy Capitalist Hillman...
...Born on the Vego Miller ranch, twin-colts to a mare named Twogo. All three doing well. Seldom are twins born in this animal kingdom and Miller states it is as rare as a Republican president...
...With Walter Hagen and Jock Hutchison, British-born James ("Long Jim") Barnes was the most famed U. S. golfer of the early post-War era. He won the Professional Golfers Association Championship twice (1916 and 1919), the U. S. Open in 1921, the British Open in 1925, retired from tournament golf because he was bored by it in 1932. Last week at Huntington, N. Y., when the -Long Island Open Championship was played over his home Crescent Club course, Long Jim Barnes, 51, decided it was his duty as host to compete. He chose the smallest available caddy, picked...
When old Chicago's Levi Zeigler Leiter died in 1904, aged 69, he left behind him a wife, a son, three daughters and $30,000,000. Born in Maryland in 1834 he arrived in Chicago at 21, got a job as bookkeeper in a wholesale dry goods house. When the Civil War broke out in 1861 Levi, then 26, was no patriotic fool. While the blood of other men his age ran red from Bull Run to Appomattox he grew so rich selling goods to the Government that in 1865 he was able to plunk $130,000 alongside Marshall...