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...Brooklyn-born son of a mortgage broker, DiLorenzo made his first deal at 17. He borrowed $1,100 to buy a brownstone, which he sold for $3,000. In 1951 he teamed with Goldman, a boyhood pal who was running a wholesale grocery for his ailing father, to buy a 600-unit apartment. DiLorenzo considers it merely "human nature" that his rapid rise led the Government to scrutinize his activities a few years ago. "I had four FBI men following me for some time," he says with a smile. "But they dropped the investigations." Now DiLorenzo and Goldman...
...just may be that Lainie Kazan,* 24, was. When Brooklyn-born Lainie signed on as understudy to Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, she was unsure it would last, and promptly developed an ulcer. But she set to work sandwiching in acting lessons, music lessons and a few TV appearances whenever possible. Twice each week she did the show in the understudy rehearsal, but for ten long months Lainie's opening-night shivers had to wait. Healthy and unhoarse, Streisand never missed a performance...
...source of all this bustle is Walter Peter Marshall. 63, the company's $141,000-a-year president. A Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-schooled accountant who is one-eighth Cherokee, Marshall got into communications accidentally by answering a help-wanted ad by All America Cables in the mistaken belief that it manufactured cables rather than sent them. After working up to executive vice president of Postal Telegraph, he came to Western Union in the 1943 merger that gave W.U. a monopoly on domestic telegraph business. When he became president in 1948, Western Union looked ready for the undertaker. With...
...Manuel Cohen, a Brooklyn-born career lawyer for the commission, was recently appointed successor to William L. Cary. But no change is expected in the 1,500-man agency's vigorous policing of the stock market...
...Brooklyn-born Cohen is a Russian immigrant's son who worked his way to a degree at Brooklyn Law School ('36) and joined the commission in 1942. Rising to head its division of corporate finance, he became known as a savvy administrator whose devotion to the job did not stop him from being well liked by the people he was regulating. Last week New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston called Cohen "dedicated and realistic...