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...Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan sat sunk in an easy chair with a biography of George Washington in his lap. Piled beside him were other biographies: lives of Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt. The Senator's broad dome nodded drowsily. His cigar...
...Manhattan, ruddy, quiet, cigar-smoking Julius Klorfein, who had already bought $2,735,000 in bonds, including $1,000,000 worth for Jack Benny's old violin (TIME, March 8), bought at auction the autographed galley proofs of Wendell Willkie's new book, One World, for $100,000. A Detroit policeman, making house-to-house calls, came away from one home with a $100,000 subscription. The home owner: Speedboat Manufacturer Gar Wood...
...Alvin Roth's week, for after winning the Individual he went on to win the Vanderbilt Cup too, as a member of the victorious team-of-four. Honors for the week's most spectacular play, however, went not to Alvin Roth but to a pudgy, cigar-smoking teammate, Fred Kaplan, who turned the trick of bidding and making a grand slam in hearts with only three hearts in his hand...
...example, the Times was greatly distressed because only 15 per cent placed Portland. Ore, on the Columbia River as the Times expected them to. The current Rand-McNally Atlas places it squarely on the contributory Willamette, with the city limits stopping noticeably short of the Columbia. "Close, but no cigar...
Generations of N.Y.U. undergraduates have known and loved gentle, cigar-smoking Emil Von Elling. He started coaching track at N.Y.U. 30 years ago, when few New York City college boys had ever seen a spiked shoe. Now some 150 boys turn out each year for his team. He finds them fascinating as individuals, likes to tailor a different set of exercises and training schedule for each...