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...generations of newsmen in St. Louis, the squat, hustling figure of Sammy Bronstein was as familiar as their city editors -and sometimes more important. Sammy, peering sharp-eyed through thick glasses, regularly made the rounds of pressrooms and other reporters' hangouts, lending newsmen enough money-at high rates-to tide them over until payday. Last week Sammy Bronstein, 78, himself made news for his old customers by pulling off his greatest financial coup; for an investment of $3,600 made in bonds in the bankrupt Missouri Pacific Railroad 18 years ago, Bronstein got $970,000 in securities...
...Philadelphia. ¶ Sam Snead, with a 17-under-par 263, the $10,000 Greenbrier Open Golf tournament; at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. ¶ Russia's Mikhail Botvinriik, the world -. chess championship he has held since 1948, after a 24-game draw with Russia's David Bronstein; in Moscow. ¶ The Rokeby Stable's County Delight, the $69,600 Gallant Fox Handicap, in a four-horse photofinish over Palestinian, Greek Ship and Lotowhite; at Jamaica...
...portraits El Greco painted was of a man dead some 70 years. The picture is one of the most striking, and least familiar, in a fine new book of reproductions released last week under the brief title, El Greco (Harry N. Abrams; $10). In the accompanying text, Critic Leo Bronstein explains that El Greco painted his portrait of Spanish Cardinal Tavera from a death mask, kept the whole picture correspondingly austere...
...Everything is reduced to the very idea of economy," observes Bronstein. "One erect triangle for the architecture of the figure ... a beautiful single hand . . . and one truth of the face-the skull. Everything is rigid, motionless, everything, save the living eyes...
...secretary are Jeannette Beatty, Jean Berko, Ethel Bronstein, Julie Paxton, and Gracia Taketa; for treasurer, Nina Boheln, Elizabeth Gray, Marianne Rudolf, and Constance Smith; and for council representative, Vicki Blass, Carol Cummings, Dele Gilmore, Anne Friedrich, Judith Herrick, Nancy Jenny, Pat Kook, Marie-Beth Walsh, Jane Whitehill, and Lois Williams