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What Is Truth? Edith Efron is the Manhattan-born wife of Fortuné Bogat, a Haitian business agent for U.S. manufacturers (General Motors, RCA, Goodyear, Du Pont). Stepmother of three children, mother of a fourth and mistress of a mountainside mansion overlooking Port-au-Prince, she had a self-deprecating reply to President Estimé's invitation: she had "never taught anybody anything." But, she said, she was willing...
...cutthroat textile business, Manhattan-born Jake Schwab fought his way up from scratch. He left high school at 16 to work at odd jobs. At 20, he got a $15-a-week stock clerk's job with Cohn-Hall-*Marx, a big textile converter. Young Jake had a knack for figures, studied nights to improve it. By 1928 he had risen to treasurer. In that year, Bankers Kidder, Peabody & Co. raised about $20 million to make Cohn-Hall-Marx the base of a textile pyramid integrating many different businesses in the cotton-rayon industry. The new giant was United...
...Manhattan-born Abe, a onetime coat label salesman, thought his radio listeners ought to know what he looks like. "Am I fat?" he asked them. "Am I sloppy? Am I bald? Well, my answer...
...first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate: Manhattan-born Edis de Philippe had studied under Garden...
...Died. Catherine Lenihan O'Dwyer, 54, Manhattan-born wife of William O'Dwyer, New York City's, mayor; after long illness; in Manhattan...