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Cornells Bol talks wittily in his imperfect English, likes sloppy, comfortable clothes, has a plump wife and five chubby sons for whom he keeps a horse and a ponycart. Born in Holland 52 years ago, he came to the U. S. in 1907 to study at Princeton, Stanford, the University of Montana, returned in 1916 to his native land where he worked on the development of sodium vapor lamps in the Philips laboratories and devised a way of sealing chrome steel to glass in X-ray apparatus. Last autumn he again bobbed up at Stanford as a research assistant. "Europe...
...they met again they had both made the grade. Liggett's career has enough forge-ahead stuff for three Horatio Alger stories. His Scottish-Dutch ancestry gave him a big body, unbounded assurance, tireless ambition. By the time he was 21 he had a house, a wife, a ponycart and $7,000 in the bank. His first independent venture, with a bankrupt store, was typical. Overnight he painted long rows of red footsteps leading to his shop, was arrested for defacing public property. But the judge let him off and the scheme worked. Just as he was getting...
...Trinity College in 1910. His campus nickname: "Sis." His fellow townsmen remember that when the children of Benjamin Newton Duke were young?Mary, and "Angy" (Angier), who fell from a yacht tender at Newport in 1923 and was drowned?Dr. Few used to ride with them in their ponycart. Like many another Duke official, he is a Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard-bitten little Methodist ex-Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, he was like him a leading Hoovercrat. Many North Carolinians believe Dr. Few to be a shrewd, astute politician backed by the Duke Endowment, heading a powerful...
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