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Young officers, students and workers last week captured Lend-Lease guns and armored cars to smash General Federico Ponce's Guatemalan dictatorship. When the shooting stopped, a provisional triumvirate ruled Guatemala: Captain Jacobo Arbenz, 28-year-old son of a Swiss druggist, who planned the revolt; Major Francisco Xavier Arana, and Jorge Toriello, son of one of Guatemala's first families...
...should a gunmaker go into the oil business? Hawley's stock reply: "Why not? Hell's bells, look at Harry Sinclair [president of Sinclair Oil Corp.]. He was a Kansas druggist. And Frank Phillips [board chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co.]. He was a barber...
...Gerald P. Guyer, the druggist: "Ernie sure gets the news back. The other boys don't seem to get hold of the news like Ernie does...
...long ago a Boston patrol, made up of a physician, a druggist, a bookseller and an undertaker, spotted a fire in the coal docks, fought the blaze until the firemen arrived, probably saved the Boston waterfront from a major disaster...
Moneyed Boy. Isidore Fadiman's boy Clifton earned his first money when he was barely old enough to run errands in his native New York City. Because his druggist-father was poor, Clifton Fadiman paid his way through high school by working in an insurance office and selling rare books. At Columbia University he tutored campus numskulls, was a waiter, sold magazine subscriptions. On the side he was a night clerk in a branch post office. Summers he lectured on French Symbolist poets and once translated Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. He aver aged...