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...some ways, Frank Cohen is an exceptional kind of American, but he does not look it. Short (5 ft. 4 in.), rotund (180 lb.), 48, he grew up in New York City and went to Columbia, where he wrote a Ph.D. thesis on what was then (1916) the revolutionary theory of an annual wage for seasonal industries. Intending to teach, he was so irritated by the blank laughter his views aroused among businessmen that he went into business himself. His first venture was an unlikely scheme to sell U.S. oil products in bulk to Palestine. The first shipment netted...
...years rotund Norman Alexander McLarty has juggled one of the hottest jobs in Canada's Cabinet, the Ministry of Labor. Last week, just as it was getting red-hot, he had to drop it-but not before he had given Canada a brand-new idea for handling defense labor disputes...
Franklin Roosevelt smiled and thanked him. The little rotund, stooped, pink-faced, bulldog-jawed Britisher, his visored cap askew over the remnants of sandy yellow hair that once was red, stood beaming, like a deceptively diffident cherub. The tall, easy-mannered American, with a jaw just as stubborn, stood with his huge shoulders thrown back, his head cocked on one side, as it always is when he meets something new and important...
...should visit Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. but rotund Elsa Maxwell, professional party-liner for café society. Last week, interviewed by the New York World-Telegram, Miss Maxwell had some unexpectedly shrewd observations to make about the U.S. Army's morale. Said...
Seeking Divorce. Morton Downey, 39, rotund radio tenor; from Barbara Bennett Downey, 34, second of the cinemadoll Bennett sisters; after twelve years' marriage; charging cruelty; in Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. Downey, while declining to contest the suit, intended to fight if necessary for custody of their five children...