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Classic & Sound. Ike has been playing bridge for more than 25 years, ranks as an expert just a shade below tournament class. His game was once described by Ely Culbertson as "classic, sound, with flashes of brilliance." His favorite bridge partner, NATO's General Alfred Gruenther, is one of the few military men who have long been regarded as better than Ike at the game.* After one crucial hand, in which they were soundly set, Partners Eisenhower and Gruenther mulled over the game play in an exchange of letters that went on for two years...
...main bungalow at Puanar, donated by Gandhi's old benefactor, the late Millionaire Jamnalal Bajaj, seemed so luxurious to the ascetic Bhave that he was tempted to refuse it. Finally he accepted, but stripped the bungalow to its bare walls. Like Gandhi before him, Bhave is an expert spinner and weaver. Unless it is raining, he sleeps outdoors every night, whether on the road or at Puanar...
...spent 22 years in advertising before Lorillard hired him away from his agency (Geyer, Newell & Ganger) as executive vice president in 1950, had resigned, announced Lorillard, "in the interest of regaining his health." Replacing Ganger was Executive Vice President William J. (for Joseph) Halley, 55, a financial expert who joined Lorillard in 1918, moved up steadily, if not spectacularly, as comptroller, treasurer and financial vice president. In the shuffle last week, Chairman and Former President (1942-52) Herbert A. Kent, 66, took back his old job as chief executive officer...
...FINANCIAL EXPERT (I 78 pp.)-R. K. Narayan - Michigan State College Press...
...Financial Expert traces the rise & fall of Margayya, a proud, overimaginative moneylender who keeps bank each day under a banyan tree. Margayya makes a good living from small loans, but he is not satisfied; he dreams of real wealth. The local priest advises Margayya to woo the gods with a special rite: mix the ashes of a red lotus with milk drawn from a smoke-colored cow. Sure enough, not long after, Margayya meets Dr. Pal, a sociologist who has written a book called Bed-Life, or the Science of Marital Happiness. The first chapters make Margayya blush, but they...