Word: broker
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Scion of a wealthy landed Maryland family. Bruce led a Princeton campus revolt against the snobbish eating clubs, enlisted in World War I as a private, later won election to the Maryland assembly from a Jewish slum district, rolled up millions as a broker and entrepreneur (oil, race tracks, distilleries, newspapers), in World War II became chief of espionage and sabotage in Europe for the Office of Strategic Services, won military decorations from seven countries. As a postwar diplomat, lifetime Democrat Bruce helped to forge the Schuman Plan and European Defense Community. Last week the British could scarcely conceal their...
NIGHTS IN NEW YORK, proclaimed a Manhattan ticket broker in an ad last week, adding the suggestion that it would be a mighty nice thing if everybody did as Jack did. True enough, John Kennedy had dropped in for a performance of the musical comedy Do Re Mi-but that occasion was perhaps the least restless of his breakneck week. Winging about to Massachusetts, Manhattan, Washington and Florida, he examined reports from nine study groups, announced a score of appointments, went fishing, played golf, worked on his inaugural address-and came out of it all appearing eager for more...
...even then, Jackie Bouvier seemed somehow removed from her group; her friends noticed it and still recall it. In 1940 her parents were divorced. Two years later, Janet Bouvier married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a Washington broker, but Black Jack, who died in 1957, never remarried. Jackie adored her father, and her eyes still glisten when she speaks of him. "He was a most devastating figure," she says. "At school all my friends adored him, and used to line up to be taken out to dinner when he came...
...past she would prefer to meet?-gives another small clue to her character. She picked Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde and Diaghilev.) But Jackie regretfully declined the prize-a return trip to Paris-when her mother objected. There was a brief engagement to John Husted Jr., a socially registered Manhattan broker, but, both agree, it was never really serious...
Insurance men have played their part in show business at least since Go-for-Broker Arthur Stebbins, nephew of 20th Century-Fox's former Board Chairman Joe Schenck, talked Mack Sennett into taking a $500,000 policy on cross-eyed Ben Turpin to protect Sennett if Turpin's eyes should decide to go straight. Self-proclaimed originator of "the scarface policy," Stebbins later arranged insurance for Eddie Cantor's eyes, Jimmy Durante's nose, Marlene Dietrich's legs. Of course, the real purpose was publicity, and for sheer newsworthiness no policy before or since...