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...dairies. He branched out into investment banking, became a partner in Detroit's McDonald-Moore & Co. (a connection he severed when he joined SEC). Still a salesman, McDonald's first step as SEC boss last week was to call in his division chiefs and tell them to "make this agency one of the best in town to do business with...
...plus a fixed fee, McShain was the winner again. The highest bid was a fixed fee of $950,000; the lowest, $100,000, was McShain's. Said McShain: "I figured nobody would go as low as that, so I bid it. I may not make a nickel on it, but I've done so much work in Washington, I just thought I'd like to add the White House...
...million worth of buildings under way at one time, spent a year completing the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. "Sometimes," says McShain, "there's money in such jobs, sometimes there isn't. But I'd rather break even on a monumental building than make a million on an uninspired warehouse." Nevertheless, McShain did well enough to buy the 600-room Barclay Hotel on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, to become part owner of the 400-room Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, and co-owner and president of the Atlantic City Traction...
...Pesth Lying-in Hospital, knew that he was going mad. He had broken down in tears at a medical meeting; he had begun talking to himself in public places; his wife had already made arrangements to send him to an asylum. His circulars were a pathetic attempt to make the world understand the source of childbed fever before madness destroyed him. When all of them were distributed, he flung himself into the last gesture of his life. Rushing to the dissecting room of Pesth University, he slashed his fingers with a knife, plunged them "into the corrupt and rotting darkness...
Author Morton Thompson (Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player) dignifies his novelized life of Semmelweis by steering clear of the soupy fantasies that make a lot of biographical fiction worthless. The Cry and the Covenant was read for errors by a leading Manhattan gynecologist, who found none. Even the inevitably idyllic love affair (at 38 Semmelweis married a girl of 18) is anchored firmly in fact. "An editor suggested that I have him fall in love sooner," reports Author Thompson. "I said, 'What do you want me to do-make him fall in love with an eleven-year-old girl...