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...porter in 1907 after a short Manhattan career as a newsboy and Western Union messenger. It was years before the partners even knew him by name. By his own account he got ahead by being "such a fresh kid." During the War he was cook on a submarine chaser, until yanked into the Navy's Intelligence Department. Brilliant, blunt, energetic, he takes vast interest in the affairs of any company in which he is a director. Occasionally at board meetings he pulls out an essay on the duties of a director, reads it to his fellow board members...
During the War Dr. Charcot commanded a submarine chaser, won the Croix de Guerre and Britain's D. S. C. Afterward he turned to Earth's other Pole, took the Pourqnoi Pas on seven trips to Greenland, exploring the coast, sounding the bottom, studying Eskimo folklore. In 1928 the sturdy old man in his sturdy old ship searched long & hard for his lost colleague, Roald Amundsen. By this time he had presented the Pourquoi Pas to the French Museum of Natural History, which sponsored most of his expeditions...
...navigator aboard Brilliant last week was 45-year-old Alfred Fullerton Loomis, one of the most experienced ocean racers in the world. On a submarine-chaser during the War, Sailor Loomis has spent most of the years since then scudding about the world in small sailboats. A veteran of one transatlantic, two Fastnet, four Bermuda races, he is an accepted authority on small-boat sailing, the author of severa topnotch nautical books. Last week, as he stood on Brilliant's deck watching victory slip from his grasp, there was published in Manhattan another top-notch Loomis book, Ocean Racing...
...marked the introduction of the "hidden ball" or spinner plays. Haughton had developed these the summer before by experimenting with the plays, using his wife, famed for her judgment, and his dog, which was an excellent ball-chaser. Finding that both womanly institution and canine instinct were successfully fooled in trying to locate the holder of the ball, he decided that plays of this type were feasible in actual play...
...class book of 1912 at the University of Colorado, under a picture of Floyd Bostwick Odium, is the caption: "Manages to get his hands on everything that makes money." Starting as an obscure chaser of ambulance chasers in Utah, lean, sandy-haired Floyd Odium got his hands on $14,000,000 in cash and quick assets just before the market broke in 1929. He sat on his money until 1930, then quietly began placing his bets. Result: Floyd Odium is Depression's No. 1 phenomenon and his Atlas Corp., with assets of $110,000,000, the biggest investment trust...