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...during the age of Angell that a freshman named Whitney Griswold moved into the old freshman Oval. He had come from Morristown, N.J., with generations of Yalemen behind him, the son of a New York insurance broker who would leave for work in Manhattan each morning before daylight and return home each night after dark (his paternal advice: "Don't commute!"). By the time young Whitney got to Yale, his education consisted of eight years at a small private school, followed by four years at Hotchkiss, in Lakeville, Conn...
Then Winchell, who may have heard Wall Street gossip that the Securities & Exchange Commission was looking into the tips on N.P. & L., carefully denied that he had intended to tip anyone. In fact, he said, he had gotten his dope out of a broker's letter reporting that Walter Mack, onetime boss of Pepsi-Cola, "was trying to buy control of N.P. & L. to be used as distributor for a new soft drink firm...
...clinching the Empire State deal, Stevens did not forget his old knack of picking up finder's fees. He not only acted as principal, but as one of the three brokers, stood to collect $166,000 for himself in broker's fees. Says hardheaded Roger Stevens: "We didn't buy it because it's the world's tallest building but because it looked like a cheap piece of real estate...
...Only One. This was a reserve crew, fresh from civilian jobs. They'd been mobilized in September to come to the Far East in February. Bill McCord owned his own printing and binding plant outside Los Angeles. Lieut. Marovish was a prosperous insurance broker. He had bought a new home a few weeks before being recalled. The business was going down every day and he was worried sick. Sooner or later he feared he'd lose that house. Their skipper back at the base was Lieut. Commander Ray Nittinger, Lieut. Marovish's insurance partner...
Love, Marriage, Divorce. Unlike most of their 20 million listeners, the Barbours have always had plenty of money (Father is a retired broker worth "approximately $300,000"), and Morse strongly believes that the strength of the U.S. lies in "the Barbour type of family." But the Family's greatest appeal lies in the sobs, heartaches and all-around pluckiness of the Barbours in their encounters with love, marriage, divorce and sickness...