Word: protegees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ With his $25,000 Guarnerius violin tucked cosily beneath his arm, Violinist Harry Braun, 22, walked down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one night last week. Protege of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and of Lieut. Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, pupil of the late great Leopold Auer...
Died. Alanson Mellen ("Mellie") Dunham, 78, white-haired fiddler protege of Henry Ford; at Lewiston, Me. Mr. Ford, entranced by Mr. Dunham's rendition of "Turkey in the Straw" & "Boston Fancy," took him to Detroit for one of his old-fashioned parties. A vaudeville tour afterward did not go...
L. Ames Brown, handsome Southern newsman, resigned as president of the advertising house of Lord 6 Thomas and Logan, Inc. (American Tobacco. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, California Fruit Growers Exchange, General Electric). Succeeding Mr. Brown is another Wartime U. S. Ship ping Board protege of Albert Davis Lasker, L. & T. and...
Meantime, word came that Johnny ("The Immune") Torrio?who brought Snorkey from New York to Chicago eleven years ago, was later scared out of town by rival guns?would come back from Florida to succeed his onetime protege. Gangster Torrio has been erroneously reported as hiding in Italy. His pretensions...
Quietly, modestly, but authoritatively and rapidly Dr. Brüning forged upward to Party Leadership which he assumed in 1929. He was and is close to Dr. Gottfried Treviranus, "Hindenburg's Colonel House." It was as the potent old President's protege that Dr. Brüning became...