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...Crisis and Some Ways Out (1931), other economic books and articles. William J. Hammerslough is head of the firm's investment advisory service. Monroe Gutman is the statistician and analyzer of corporate statements. To this group of conservative, capable, quiet bankers in 1934 went John Daniel Hertz, Chicagoan who collects race horses rather than Madonnas, who is a businessman, not a banker, who has been unsuccessful in business only in his two attempts to retire from it. Born in Austria, arriving in the U. S. at 4, he grew up to write sports for a Chicago newspaper, manage prizefighters...
Engaged, Lawson Little, 24, amateur golf champion of the U. S. and England (TIME, Sept 23); and Dorothy Hurd, 18, Chicagoan whom he met two years ago at the Broadmoor Golf Club, Colorado Springs...
...Weissmuller became a cinemactor. Peter Fick, last week's free-style sprint winner, 20 years old, 185 lb., broke Weissmuller 's 100-metre record last year. Third of last week's main Olympic hopes, unknown nationally until this winter, Adolph Kiefer is a 16-year-old Chicagoan, trained by his father, onetime swimming instructor in the German Army...
Last week the following were news: William McCormick Blair, first cousin of Publisher Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, graduated from Yale in 1907. That year a bright young Chicagoan named Francis Augustus Bonner graduated from Harvard. Yaleman Blair worked in Chicago's Northern Trust Co., famed training ground for brokers and bankers, then joined Lee, Higginson & Co. Harvardman Bonner became financial editor of the defunct Chicago Evening Post, a railroad statistician, then also joined Lee, Higginson. Last week Mr. Blair, 50, and Mr. Bonner, 49, teamed together to form the underwriting and general securities house of Blair...
...countries. A distinguished jury walked solemnly down long galleries of exhibits, conferred, then awarded the Eastman Gold Medal to Ralph J. Fallert of Chicago for a misty study of coal elevators and chimneys entitled "Towers of Industry." The Sulzer cup for the best portrait went to another Chicagoan, John W. Zarley for a picture of a smiling gentleman in a derby sucking a pipe...