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...broad-shouldered, fair-haired, blue-eyed, with an irresistible capacity for laughter. ... Of course a young man like that landing in the midst of Boston society played havoc with the fair sex. They fell before him like ninepins." Handsome Cotty entered Lee, Higginson & Co., brokers, as a runner and clerk. Life among the trust funds soon bored him. He visited the famed, silver-tongued rector of Boston's fashionable Trinity Episcopal Church, Phillips Brooks. Their conversation...
Umbrella Salesman. Easy-mannered Byron Nelson has come a long way since he worked as a clerk for the Fort Worth & Denver City Railroad, practicing golf in the evenings, before the depression knocked him out of a job. In 1932, he made his first professional golf tour and earned exactly $12.50. This year, with his average of 3.85 strokes a hole, he has picked up #39,875 in war-bond prizes, worth $29,906.25 in cash...
Died. Frederic Ely Williamson, 68, onetime clerk who rose to be President of the N.Y. Central Railroad (from 1932 until his retirement last September), director of more than 50 U.S. railroads, 1936 winner of the Montclair Yale Club's silver bowl to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...went solemn Stanley Hornbeck, 61, onetime chief of the State Department's Far Eastern division; to Bolivia, Walter Thurston, 48, of Colorado; to Colombia, John Cooper Wiley, U.S. Minister to Latvia and Estonia until 1941; to El Salvador, John F. Simmons, 52, who began as a U.S. consular clerk...
...clerk said he was sorry, but the rooms were not yet ready. So the Yankees cooled their heels and tempers in the lobby. When they finally went out to Briggs Stadium, the red-hot Tigers continued the cooling-off treatment. And when the Boston Red Sox followed the Yankees into Detroit they got more of the same-to the point where they were really frozen out of the race...