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...Hastings, Mich., scorning current attempts to pile thousands of matches on top of beer bottles as "mere child's play" (TIME, Dec. 28), Newsboy Elmer ("Monk") White inserted a match in a cork, stood the match up on a table, laid two yardsticks at right angles on the cork, balanced 36 beer bottles on the yardsticks...
Sitting on the boards of 31 corporations, restless little Sidney Weinberg started in Goldman Sachs as a porter in 1907 after a short Manhattan career as a newsboy and Western Union messenger. It was years before the partners even knew him by name. By his own account he got ahead by being "such a fresh kid." During the War he was cook on a submarine chaser, until yanked into the Navy's Intelligence Department. Brilliant, blunt, energetic, he takes vast interest in the affairs of any company in which he is a director. Occasionally at board meetings he pulls...
Died. Senator James Couzens, 64, of Michigan, reputedly richest man in the Senate, who strongly advocated higher income taxes for his kind; of uremic poisoning; in Detroit. A onetime newsboy and coalyard hand who in 1903 invested $2,500 in Ford Motor Co., he became Ford general manager, sold out his interest to Henry Ford in 1915 for some $30,000,000. In 1919 he ran for Mayor of Detroit, warned voters he was not "a good fellow . . . who will do favors for his friends," was elected. Three years later he was in the U. S. Senate. Last September Republican...
Youngest Manhattan financial editor is Julius George Berens of Hearst's American. Now 31, short, swart, he entered his profession as a newsboy, has been office boy, stenographer, reporter, columnist (under the pseudonym "Broadan Wall"). Wasted on the majority of its 600,000 straphanging readers is the Evening Journal's alert financial section run by able, aggressive Leslie Gould...
Genealogy counts for little on Broadway, but nobody in show business can point to humbler origins than George Alviel White. He says he has been on his own since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline...