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This year Maryland is running close again, and the decision may lie with Insurance Broker Jack Pollack, Democratic boss of Baltimore's fourth state legislative district. Pollack consistently delivers 25,000 votes, mostly from the fourth district, where he maintains his power by dealing out political favors, large & small. In recent years his realm has extended into the fifth and sixth districts...
...boss and chief stockholder of Schenley Industries, Inc., Lewis Solon Rosenstiel built a $438 million empire and a reputation in the liquor trade as a confident hustler. During Prohibition, while distillers were folding up, Rosenstiel, then a whisky broker, bet his money on Repeal ; he bought up all the whisky he could lay his hands on. Result: the year after Repeal, his new Schenley company had sales of $40 million...
...tittle-tattle and digression on the British show is voluble Panelist Harding, whom the BBC once banned for seven weeks from Twenty Questions after he audibly mumbled into the mike that the show was "a silly business." Later he was officially scolded for snapping at a whisky broker on What's My Line?: "I'm tired of looking at your face." Unlike U.S. audiences, Britons win no prizes on their quiz shows. The successful challenger who manages to stump the panel is rewarded with a parchment scroll, suitable for framing and hanging in the front parlor...
...persistent playgoer in Manhattan, a man must really love the theater. If he wants to see a hit play on Broadway, he is likely to be insulted by the box-office attendant, scalped by a ticket broker, upstaged by the usher and snarled at by a fireman. He will find no place under his seat to park his hat, he must refrain from smoking, and, if he wants a drink between acts, he must fight his way through the crowds and buy it somewhere down the street...
Pushing even farther out of the G.O.P. corral was Chicago Insurance Broker Hermon Dunlap ("Dutch") Smith, a Republican who headed the Stevenson-for-Governor Committee in the 1948 Illinois gubernatorial campaign, last week planned to organize a national Citizens-for-Stevenson organization...