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Giggle at First Sight. Young Christian, born to Albert and Adele Herter in Paris, grew to be a strikingly tall, alarmingly thin lad who had to wear hip-high steel leg braces for six years to correct a curvature of the spine-forerunner of the osteoarthritis that was to afflict him in later years. ("I had no trouble with it for 40 years. Then it came back. Retribution, I guess.") He became a passable golfer, tennis and baseball player during his Harvard years (he is still an avid Boston Red Sox fan), but despite these normalities, many of his Harvard...
...Versailles peace conference, where he met two other promising diplomats named Foster and Allen Dulles, Herter served as aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew. After Versailles, he was in on the birth of foreign aid, traveling around hungry, war-torn Europe as an assistant to Food Commissioner Herbert Hoover. When Hoover became Commerce Secretary under Harding in 1921, he tapped Herter as an assistant...
Editing such copy, the Farm Journal's Streeter is as much farmer as newsman. He grew up on a South Dakota livestock ranch, graduated with a degree in agriculture from Iowa State College in 1923. After college, he caught on with the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette as its first farm editor, spent days skidding down muddy roads to dig out stories in long, back-fence chats with farmers. Says he: "When you're looking for news, there's nothing that beats getting out yourself and talking to sources...
...Chalk should know. He has run up a $10 million-plus fortune by making every dollar turn over many times-through borrowing. Son of a Russian immigrant shopkeeper, Chalk grew up in The Bronx (his neighbors were George and Ira Gershwin, and he fielded sandlot grounders batted by Lou Gehrig), rode the subways to New York University Law School ('31). With loans and his skimpy earnings as a young attorney, he bought Bronx apartments at Depression prices, later cashed in on World War II's real estate boom. Typical Chalk deal: in 1942 he bought the 16-story...
...founded the nonsked Trans Caribbean Airways by buying two DC-3s, and within two years it was earning $60,000 annually. Trans Carib expanded to lift thousands of refugees from Europe to Israel, tons of airmail from Europe to South America, flew charter trips from Johannesburg to Jerusalem. It grew so strong that in 1957 it won a regular U.S.-Puerto Rico route, became the first nonsked passenger airline in 20 years to win scheduled status (TIME, Dec. 2, 1957). Last year Trans Carib (including its major subsidiary, D.C. Transit) earned more than $1,000,000, most...