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...began as an insurance salesman's teaser. Its publisher, lean, lively Glenn Burrs, was once a saxophonist of small distinction from Dixon, Ill. In 1933 he began selling insurance on the side and talked his partner Albert Lipschultz into financing a small throwaway sheet of musical chitchat for their dance band clients. The venture was a net loss, and Lipschultz finally sold out to Burrs...
Died. Pierre Vienot, 46, popular, hard-working Gaullist envoy to Britain; of a heart attack; in London. Lean, hooknosed Vienot rejected the armistice of 1940, escaped to North Africa, where Pierre Laval had him arrested and brought to France for imprisonment. He escaped, reached London sick from war wounds and prison privations, thereafter worked himself to death...
...Politician. In Nicaraguan politics Tacho was a natural from the start. After a lean youth which included a spell of meter-reading, residence in the U.S., and marriage into Nicaragua's potent Debayle family, Tacho entered public life via civil war. In the troubles of 1926-27, notable for the intervention of U.S. Marines...
Beset by its own labor shortages, the Santa Fe desperately sent whistling freights shuttling back & forth across the dusty prairies. At Enid, Okla., lean, hard-driving Foreman Tom Ingles set a goal of switching a car a minute, and made...
Covering the Waterfront. Hennecke's naval gunners manned waterside batteries bearing such names as Bromm, Yorck, Hamburg and Landemer. They served their guns so well that lean, bushy-browed Rear Admiral Morton L. Deyo took his whole division of ancient U.S. battleships (Nevada, Texas, Arkansas), four cruisers and seven destroyers to blast them...