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...father, Alfred Chapin Clapp, was an insurance broker of East Orange, N.J., He was a kindly man with a small goatee and a frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...
Married. Maida Heatter, 33, daughter of schmalzy Radioracle Gabriel Heatter; and Ellis A. Gimbel Jr., fiftyish, Manhattan broker, member of the Gimbel department store clan; both for the second time; in Freeport...
...technicalities which classify sheep shears as a "surgical instrument," and by which rugs with fringes on them get charged as lace because the law puts fringes in the lace-and-trimmings category. The U.S. customs maze is well-nigh impenetrable to the would-be British trader without customs-broker guidance, which adds to the cost of British goods...
Charlie Coe, the tournament's thin man (6 ft. 1 in., 135 lbs.), is an insurance broker from Ardmore, Okla. A more ardent golfer than King (he has twice won the Trans-Mississippi crown), 25-year-old Finalist Coe was the favorite as he squared off on the first tee. Both amateurs promptly began playing like amateurs. Coe, normally as cool as a barrel of ice water and deadly with a putter, three-putted the first green. Then he settled down and it was King's turn to blow...
Curb Service. In Pompano, Fla., Samuel Bachinger, visiting an insurance broker to pay his automobile insurance premium, glanced out the window, saw a sign blow off the company's building and smack his Oldsmobile, promptly filed a claim...