Word: pharmacist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Harry Ford ("Sinco") Sinclair, 80, poker-faced onetime Kansas pharmacist who parlayed $5,000 in insurance money (awarded after he shot off a toe while rabbit-hunting) into a successful string of wildcat oil wells, lost a wad (1914-15) trying to establish a third major baseball league, by 1916 founded the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., bought a string of racehorses (his Zev won the 1923 Kentucky Derby), in 1922 leased the Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew...
Shrieking Leap. The woman Milan critics now call Goddess Callas was born Maria Anna Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulos at dawn on Dec. 3, 1923 in Manhattan's Flower Hospital, four months after her parents arrived from Athens. In Greece her father had been a successful pharmacist. But in the U.S. he drifted from job to job. The family moved from one cheap apartment to another, the parents always squabbling, often on the verge of breaking up. Maria remembers her childhood with bitterness: "My sister was slim and beautiful and friendly, and my mother always preferred her. I was the ugly...
...when she scaled almost 200 Ibs.), slim (5 ft. 7 in., 132 Ibs.) Maria will make her Metropolitan Opera debut late this month. No process servers greeted her at New York's Idlewild Airport, and Prima Donna Callas fell happily into the arms of her papa, a Bronx pharmacist...
...Peter Wolf Hires, 32, was named president of Philadelphia's Charles E. Hires Co. (root beer), succeeding E. W. David, who is retiring. Peter, whose father remains board chairman, is the grandson of Pharmacist Charles E. Hires Sr.; who brewed an "herb tea" of roots, bark and herbs, served it hot, and founded the company in 1876. (Later, it was served cold, renamed "root beer" to wean upstate Pennsylvania coal miners away from beer, and became, for a time, the biggest-selling U.S. soft drink.) Young Peter Hires left Haverford College before graduation to drive a company truck, became...
...pharmacist's son, Thon was born 48 years ago in Manhattan. He left school at the end of the eighth grade, lived by a variety of odd jobs while teaching himself to paint. Success came very slowly, and Thon's star did not really rise until after his World War II stint on a subchaser and his sojourn in Italy...