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Died. Abraham E. Lefcourt, 55, Manhattan realtor; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Onetime newsboy and bootblack, he had total Manhattan realty holdings in 1928 of more than $50.000.000. had perhaps razed more historic landmarks, raised more skyscrapers than any other man. Said he, "If something should happen . . . to sweep away every dollar I have in the world ... I could rebuild my fortune in half the time." He planned in 1925 a huge $10,000.000 loft building for his son Alan, 13. Alan died; he put up an eight-story building with his son's bust over the entrance...
...from Mineola, L. I. to Stamford, Conn. Time: 2 hr. 3 min. At 64 Col. Harmon is dapper, bulky, heavy-jowled, horn-rimmed eye-glassed. He is currently much better known in Paris, where he has resided for 15 years, than in New York where he was an affluent realtor. He established Harmon-on-Hudson, the Manhattan suburb where outbound New York Central trains exchange electric for steam locomotives. He is a brother of the late William Elmer Harmon who established the famed Harmon Foundation for social uplift...
Thirteen sold-out houses in Manhattan alone followed Escudero's début recital. Michael E. Paterno, rich realtor, paid him $1,000 for dancing three minutes at a private party. Month ago Escudero returned to the U. S. to follow up last winter's success. After another Manhattan recital, he set out last week on a transcontinental tour which should make...
...days after the Garden meeting less than half of the city's 8,747 Republican committeemen convened in Mecca Temple, nominated a sag-jowled, 71-year-old Brooklyn realtor named Lewis Humphrey Pounds. In 1924 Mr. Pounds had been elected State Treasurer after he had been awakened from a sound sleep and told he was being run for office. He dislikes nothing so much as vaudeville jokes at Brooklyn's expense. A sacrifice offering to Tammany, he took the Republican nomination only after it had been rejected by better known G. O. Partisans who saw no reason...
...Behind them came automobiles bearing 350 more veterans too infirm to parade. Elected G. A. R. Commander-in-Chief for the coming year was 83-year-old William P. Wright, Chicago realtor. In 1865 Commander Wright captained Co. D of the 156th Illinois Volunteer Infantry...