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...Dapper Harry Oscar Jasper, 54, is a Berlin-born refugee who started a foreign-currency business in 1936. After serving as a private in the British Army during World War II. Jasper quickly built up a small investment bank, joined forces with another Berlin refugee, a sharp lawyer named Friedrich Grunwald. Operating H. Jasper & Co., the two began to move fast, using the take-over expert's favorite tactic: after acquiring the controlling shares of a company, they would sell off its property, lease it back, use the cash acquired to buy more companies. H. Jasper & Co. gathered...
...Kitale, 200 miles to the north. Kenyatta's seven-year sentence to "hard labor" is being spent as cook to six other Mau Mau leaders, and with a year off for good behavior, he is scheduled to be freed next month. Last week Kenyatta appeared in court in dapper leather jacket and carrying a silver-embossed ebony cane that was a gift of his followers. Whistling through a hole in his front teeth, he testified that he had never given anyone the Mau Mau oath. On the contrary, he had tried to stop...
...government experience. Prime Minister José Miró Cardona, 56, is dean of the Havana Bar Association. Commerce Minister Raúl Cepero Bonilla, 37. set his goal as "an efficient organization, but above all an honest one." Public Works Minister Manuel Ray Rivero. 34, an engineer, was the dapper boss of the Havana rebel underground. He has the most urgent job of all: repairing the shattered roads and bridges to move the $700 million sugar harvest, which starts this month...
...vodka, has taken root in a Red army helmet. The caption: "Forward into 1959." Tarantel's description of East Germany's Defense Minister Heinz Kessler: "Third German to desert on the Russian front." Lead v. Gold. The man who puts the sting into Tarantel is a dapper, driving Berliner who goes by the name of Heinrich Baer. Baer has reason to hate the Communists. As a Wehrmacht corporal, he fought on the Russian front. After the war the Soviets tossed him into an internment camp for former Nazis, although he had never been a party member. When Baer...
...squabble behind the painting and hanging of the portrait and setting up the shelf of books. Both the portrait and the books had been there about ten years. The then, and still, chairman, Allen Briggs, was what is sometimes called an administrator rather than a scholar. Briggs was a dapper man, with a neat dark mustache. One would not have been surprised to learn he was a vice-president of a stocks and bonds company. For the public, or in addressing incoming graduate students, he stressed scholarly achievement; but in the in-fighting, some of it done in deadly silence...