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Died. Charles D. Barney, 101, one of the last of the ruling lions of the post-Civil War financial and speculative jungle, onetime clerk in Jay Cooke's famed banking house who married Cooke's daughter, went into partnership with his son, established an internationally known Philadelphia banking firm; in Elkins Park...
Pink, squat Jacques Duclos, 50, veteran of the GPU, is No. 2 Communist. Last week he blared the party's new line: "We are the champions and defenders of the middle class." Other Communist leaders: ruddy, rotund Florimond Bonte, 55, clerk's son and charter party member, is the Communist foreign affairs expert. Tall, devious Andre Marty, 59, an International Brigadier in the Spanish Civil War, is the party hellion...
...August 1942, while I was file clerk of the 726th M.P. Battalion, Camp Beauregard, La., I handled the papers of a recruit who was grey-haired and well over 60 years of age. He had 15,988 days "bad time" (AWOL) and a year and a half unexpired term of a three-year enlistment remaining to be served...
...like. He weighed 300 Ibs., stood six feet two; he was all of 24, he had been sent to Europe by Central Press as one of America's six brightest lads, had been graduated from Princeton with highest honors, from Harvard Law School cum laude. As a law clerk to his friend Justice Frankfurter, he squeezed himself into a chair, ran a fat hand through his dark wavy hair, and cocked an intelligent and cocky eye on the U.S. and its problems...
Standard's prettiest executives have both been working since they were children. Miss Reynolds, a native of Waterbury, Conn., was a bank clerk at 15. She worked her way through Wheaton College, taught junior high school just long enough (one year) to decide she did not like it, settled down as a stenographer in Standard's accounting department 19 years...