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...vivacious, learned, blonde Suzanne Curchod. 20-year-old Gibbon stalked about the neighboring fields "compelling the peasants to agree at the sword's point that Mile Curchod was the most beautiful person on earth." But when, after Suzanne had accepted him, his father refused to consider a penniless foreigner for a daughter-in-law, Gibbon took only two hours to admit his father was right, a crisis later summed up in his famed line: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...
...baby and his mother were stolen by raiders. The mother was never heard of again but agents of Moses Carver found the baby and got him back by swapping a race horse. In childhood George Washington Carver mastered every word in his spelling book. Finding himself a free but penniless orphan, he got what schooling he could in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, supporting himself by odd jobs. In six years at Iowa State College he won his bachelor's and master's degrees, showed such ability in agricultural chemistry that he was made a member of the faculty...
...entered partnership with Louis M. Kardos Jr. in a Wall Street brokerage firm which soon failed, was exposed as a "bucket shop." Admitting that he had received $500 a week for the use of his name as "window dressing," "Honest John" Burke surrendered all he had, returned to Fargo penniless...
...accumulate. A bondholders' protective committee foreclosed, bought in the property last November for $750,000. The Methodists, their investment lost for good, were invited to move out of the hotel, their quarters to be used for more lucrative operations, including a garage. Temple Church was as homeless and penniless as any evicted tenement family, but it had kind neighbors. Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco's largest synagog, offered the use of its building on Sundays. A small Methodist church offered the Templers a place to worship in between regular services. And San Francisco's most vigorous Congregational...
Thunder in the City (Columbia) is the meaningless title of a story about a U. S. ballyhoo artist who turns England topsyturvy promoting a new metal named magnalite. Gash-mouthed Edward G. Robinson plays the role in his customary Napoleonic manner. As genial Dan Armstrong, he lands penniless in London, bluffs his way into an option on the magnalite mines, installs a duke as board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes...