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...demonstrated that he needs none. "I have always operated lean," said Ribicoff, talking economy. He wanted no lawyer on his staff either: "After all, that's what I am." He added modestly: "If possible, I would like to have an economist in my office." South Dakota. Joseph Jacob Foss, 39, who won the Medal of Honor as a Marine fighter pilot for shooting down 26 Japanese planes, becomes the youngest governor in South Dakota's history this week, and invited everybody to his inauguration: "Come as you are." Easygoing Joe Foss decided to go into politics during...
...Many overweight patients who have tried reducing routines without success can be helped if unobtrusiveness is added to the prescription, reports Philadelphia's Dr. Jacob J. Cohen in GP. They are told not to tell their friends about the regimen until results are obvious; they are allowed small sodas or short beers, and any drugs prescribed are taken at home before breakfast...
...Protestant Anabaptist sect founded in 1528 by Jacob Hutter in the Swiss Tyrol...
Caught in legal crossfire from his two most recent wives, John Jacob Astor, 43, took the easiest way out. He conceded to the claim of wife No. 2, mousy blonde Gertrude Gretsch Astor, 31, that their Mexican divorce of last July was no good. This cleared the way for a Manhattan judge to hand Gertrude an easygoing stipend from Astor's easy-come $70 million-$2,500 a month, plus $7,500 for lawyers' fees. It also marooned Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26, very blonde Miami Beach divorcee who married Astor in August, ditched him in September, sued...
...obscure streets, Massachusetts Avenue, Beck reigned in the 1870's and 1880's. Opposite the Union on "Quincy Square," it housed such famous men as Theodore Roosevelt, John Jacob Astor, Jr., and John Pierpont Morgan. Its elaborate suites, properly filled with oak panelling and mahogany furniture, were often passed from father to son to keep the tradition in the family. When Morgan's son, for example, was only four hours old, his father telegraphed a reservation to Beck Hall for young Junius. And it is even said that Walter C. Baylies, vice-president of the newly-formed Edison Electric Company...