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...which brings us to the problem of last fall's freshman quarterback and captain, Carroll Loewenstein. Harvard football has apparently inherent in it a tendency toward the production of small but proficient backs, a thing which has reached its peak of development in Loewenstein...
Freshman captain Cal Loewenstein, whose slingshot passes are similar to Yale quarterback Tex Furse's, impersonated the latter in the freshman version...
...long as possible. . . ." Of Marx's Das Kapital: "Little Dorrit is a more seditious book . . . All over Europe men and women are in prison for pamphlets and speeches which are to Little Dorrit as red pepper to dynamite." Said Shaw's literary executor, Dr. F. E. Loewenstein, in birthday tribute: "We have not yet heard the last of Shaw. He might still be hanged as a rebel or canonized as a saint...
...pink coats and popinjays were not really his dish. Never really happy unless he is closing-or opening-a deal, he kept a finger in the financial pot. He made friends with the great London bankers, J. Henry Schroder & Co. and Alfred Loewenstein, the hard-headed Belgian who came up from nothing to be rated as third richest man in the world, controlling a worldwide utility empire. And V.E. played the stockmarket. By 1928, when he had just turned 30, he was worth some $40,000,000-on paper. But it was not enough. It just whetted his appetite...
...Grand Slam. With Loewenstein, Emanuel planned a grandiose scheme to take over just about all the utilities in the U.S. Before the plan went into effect, Loewenstein mysteriously jumped or fell from a plane over the English Channel (V.E. is sure he fell). But Emanuel, backed by the Schroders, who had been Loewenstein's bankers, and A. C. Allyn, among others, went ahead anyway. They fixed their sights on the multi-millioned Standard Gas & Electric System. Altogether, they ante'd up about $60,000,000 and formed the U.S. Electric Power Corp., a holding company with Emanuel...