Word: realtor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seldom has a prodigy been so unscrupulously exploited. After his amazing debut, Hofmann was booked for 80 concerts, played 52 before his health broke under the strain. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children intervened. The late Alfred Corning Clarke, wealthy Manhattan realtor, donated $50.000 so that the boy could go home to Poland, study in peace. Luck came on a visit to Berlin where young Hofmann played for Anton Rubinstein, became the master's only pupil...
...Robert Earl Clements was born 40 years ago in Amarillo Tex., son of a rich cattleman. After high school in Fort Worth, he migrated to Long Beach Calif, set up in the real estate business, prospered. His fortune reached a peak of $750,000 in 1929, slumped with Depression. Realtor Clements was not much impressed when one of his salesmen, an ineffectual old man who had been a Long Beach health officer, began talking to him about a plan to banish depressions for good. But after a while he took interest spent a few weeks brushing up on economics...
Married. Francis Bolton Mallory, 37, onetime editor of Life, onetime husband of Cinemactress Nancy Carroll; and Carlota Lobato, 14, his fourth wife, daughter of a Mexican realtor, whom he met fortnight ago; in Acapulco, Mexico...
...Brooklyn realtor, Bertrand Coles Neidecker sold bonds, went to France in 1916, joined the Lafayette Escadrille, won several decorations. After the War, he remained in Europe, setting himself up as a money changer to U. S. troops in the Allied occupation of the Rhineland. His Paris bank, a logical sequel, was started in 1921, catered to itinerant U. S. citizens and French aristocrats...
...Florence Nightingale Graham Lewis and Mrs. Clara Fargo Thomas. Mrs. Lewis, daughter of a Canadian truckman, now makes nearly a million dollars a year as Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics. Mrs. Thomas, socialite scion of the "Pony Express" Fargos, took up painting after her marriage to a Manhattan realtor. The two women are friends. Last week, between them, they had produced one of the oddest combinations of Culture, Art and Advertising ever seen...