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...Hampshire's young (46) Governor John Gilbert (''Gil") Winant had been born of rich parents in New York City, educated at swank St. Paul's and Princeton. But he looked like a young Abraham Lincoln - gaunt, awkward frame, unruly hair, deep-set eyes - and like Lincoln he loved the common people. He was a liberal, an idealist, a student of government and sociology, a stanch friend of Labor. On the platform, however, the only man in 100 years to be elected Governor of New Hampshire three times proved to be a halting, colorless speaker who, unlike...
...Sangamon County, Ill. where a tall, gaunt Republican lawyer once practiced his profession, another tall Republican lawyer today collects Lincolniana. His name is Benjamin Savage DeBoice. For five years Lawyer DeBoice has served as probate judge in Sangamon County. He helped to send Springfield's ex-Mayor John S. Schnepp to jail for embezzling money from an estate, won a high reputation for strict, conservative decisions governing administrators of estates. To a Springfield trust company which asked his permission to invest the funds of seven estates in U. S. Government bonds-most famed of all conservative investments-he last...
Most spectacular members of the French branch of the House of Rothschild are paunchy Baron Maurice ("Momo") who was once unseated from the French Assembly for flagrant vote-buying, and gaunt Baron James ("Jimmie") who fancies flashy clothes, horses, British women. Last week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built...
Last thing anybody would take James Henry ("Slim") Carmichael Jr. for is an air pilot. Tall, gaunt, pale, anemic, he looks much more like an undernourished ledger clerk. But "Slim" Carmichael is an iron-nerved airman who got his training in a tough school: flying passengers over the Alleghenies in single-motored Lockheeds. One night last week his nerves and training stood him in good stead...
...made at various times enormous sums of money. He once estimated that his Lincoln statues brought him over $260,000. Three of his countless pieces give him a secure place in any history of Art: Adam & Eve, now on the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills; the gaunt standing Lincoln intended for Westminster Abbey, now in Manchester, England; the nude reclining Pan, once the largest single bronze ever cast in the U. S., on the Columbia University campus...