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Short, bald-domed Albert Monroe Greenfield, 52, is Philadelphia's real-estate broker extraordinary. His personal fortune in 1929 was $15,000,000. The following year, along with Philadelphia banks and real estate, he tumbled deep into debt, has continued in this condition ever since. Still in business, he helps run the city Democratic machine, heads charities, is a director of the highly respectable Board of City Trusts. Among other distinctions, he is one of Jewry's few Papal Knights...
...January 1930 Katharine Brush (Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman) and her second husband, Broker Hubert Charles Winans, moved into a fabulous Manhattan duplex apartment, with a 30-by-40-ft., two-story-high living room (which lacked nothing, said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios...
...insurance broker of Lloyds who took up motor racing as a hobby and became Britain's popular "Speed King" is ruddy and rambunctious Sir Malcolm Campbell. Last week high-speed Sir Malcolm's divorce suit against Lady Campbell set a new low in Mayfair muckraking...
...Bald, a broker, great-grandson of the banker Jay Cooke who helped finance the Union in the Civil War, 43-year-old Mr. Cooke is unopposed in the G.O.P. primary...
Died. James Jay O'Brien, 55, broker, gentleman jockey, member of the victorious 1932 U. S. Olympic four-man bobsled team; of heart disease; in Palm Beach, Fla. His first wife: Silent Cinemactress Mae Murray. His second: Stage Actress Irene Fenwick. His widow: Laura Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien, former wife of the late Julius (yeast) Fleischmann...