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Resistance Fighter. Two years ago, when Reb Blau's first wife Hinda died, some of the steam went out of the old man's protests. Eventually, some of Blau's disciples decided that what he needed was female companionship. A shadchan (marriage broker) knew just the woman-Ruth Ben-David. Her original name was Madeleine Feraille. Born in Calais and Sorbonne-educated, she helped save the lives of several Jews while fighting with the French Resistance during World War II, and became interested in Judaism. Later she converted to Orthodox Judaism, divorced her merchant husband, changed...
Married. Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill, 25, London insurance broker, tall (6 ft. 6 in.) handsome second son of Sir Winston's cousin the tenth Duke of Marlborough; and Texas Debutante Gillian Spreckels Fuller, 18, daughter of Fort Worth Oilman Andrew Fuller, and great-granddaughter of California Sugar King John D. Spreckels; in London, one year after they met at the Ascot races...
Shift in Tactics. Personable Lawyer Wien, 60, and shy Broker-Manager Helmsley, 56, pioneered the promotion of large-scale syndicates. Much of their property is held in common with about 10,000 other people, disarmingly described by Helmsley as "friends who go into these investments with us." The pals have included Wall Streeters John L. Loeb and Clifford W. Michel, and the syndicated holdings range from Manhattan's Plaza Hotel to properties in Los Angeles, Detroit, Buffalo, Dayton and Daytona Beach...
Partly because he cunningly let others take the credit (and the blame) for his mephitic machinations, partly because he carefully left few letters or other memorabilia, a full-length biography has never before been written. Author Sarnoff, 46, a Wall Street broker by profession, pays little mind to literary style or organization, but has done his historical homework thoroughly...
...more money Sage accumulated, the more he wanted. But he dressed like a man who had just come from a rummage sale: shiny serge jacket, frayed grey vest, floppy black trousers, and square-toed brogans. One day a demented broker marched into Sage's office. In one hand he held a note demanding that Sage give him $1,200,000; in the other hand he held a bag of dynamite. Sage eased a visitor between himself and the dynamite, dashed for the exit. When the smoke cleared away, the broker was dead, the visitor was badly mangled, Sage...