Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> One of Forbes's early interviews was with a member of the Japanese Imperial Family. The place: a hotel bathroom in Durban, S. Africa, with His Highness in the tub.
Bertie Charles Forbes grew up in the Horatio Alger tradition. He can boast of rising at 5 a.m. (aged 12) and walking half a mile through the fields of Aberdeenshire to shine 20 pairs of shoes. He did odd jobs at the age of 9, taught himself shorthand at 13...
Last week Philosopher Forbes had even more reason than usual to radiate happiness. In his green, musty, picture-plastered office on Manhattan's lower Fifth Avenue, he was busy autographing first editions of his eleventh book, Little Bits About Big Men. In a heavy Scotch burr he admitted that...
Little Bits, like other Forbes books, is written on the general theory that if a businessman's business is big enough, he is a great man and anything about him is worth printing. Typical Little Bits:
Among the dignitaries at the reception for the opening of the museum and library were President Conant, Edward W. Forbes '95, director of the Fogg Museum, and George H. Edgell '09, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.