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...seemed somehow appropriate that on the day before the Seattle fair opened, the one familiar symbol of another great fair-indeed of another great era-should say goodbye. Dead last week of a stroke at 75 was Grover Michael Aloysius Augustine Whalen, president of the 1939 New York World's Fair, chief greeter of the world's celebrities who came to New York during a pulsating quarter-century, inventor of the ticker-tape parade-the Host of New York...
...Washington's WTTG TV last week began to broadcast a series of uncompromisingly erudite lectures on international affairs by professors of New York's Columbia University.* Behind this brainstretching venture, which drew a rare rave from FCC Chairman Newton Minow, stood an unlikely figure: Investment Banker Armand Grover Erpf, 64. In 26 years as a partner in Manhattan's prestigious Carl M. Loeb. Rhoades & Co.. elfinlike Armand Erpf has displayed an uncanny nose for investment opportunities that has led fellow financiers to label him "a professionals' professional.'' But whenever possible. Erpf likes...
Schlesinger is now working closely with Wayne Grover, the archivist of the United States, and Edward Hanify of the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray...
...participate in more than one fair in a single country within a ten-year period. B.I.E.'s blessing has already been bestowed upon Seattle's Century 21 Exposition, which opens in April, a ruling that automatically leaves New York without official representation from European governments. But Grover Whalen, in 1939, faced limited B.I.E. participation, still ended up with some handsome European pavilions. Says Moses: "We don't take this B.I.E. business very seriously. You won't find anybody around here worrying about...
...after he had made his pile. "I was in partnership with the Big Fellow-and he made geology." "Some successful businessmen make a great point of telling how their success dated from the time they took God in with them as a partner." complains California Methodist Dr. Grover Bagby. "To this blasphemous idea it would almost seem in order to make an equally blasphemous reply: 'What a break...