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After Quay grew old and ill, the machine passed to the most remarkable of the Pennsylvania bosses, Boies Penrose, scion of an aristocratic Philadelphia family, a Harvard man who started out writing books like A History of Ground Rents in Philadelphia. He made his political debut at a citizens' protest meeting against Philadelphia's notoriously undependable streetcar lines. The 6 ft. 4 in., 200-lb. political genius went to the legislature, the state senate, the U.S. Senate; he would have run for mayor of Philadelphia if the opposition had not threatened to print a snapshot of Penrose leaving...
...Church such unlikely prospects as Colonel Horace Mann of Tennessee, credited with leading a mudslinging campaign against Catholic Al Smith; Heywood Broun, archliberal freethinker; Louis Budenz, managing editor of the Communist Daily Worker. Other notable converts: Author Clare Boothe Luce, Violinist Fritz Kreisler, Broadway Stage Designer Jo Mielziner, Motor Scion Henry Ford II. Recently, he has been giving instruction to the wife of a diplomat and to Screen Star Virginia Mayo. He has converted thousands of unknown people, including a hard-boiled bank robber. Says he: "I do not keep count. If I did, I might lose my power...
Ahmed Naguib el Hilaly Pasha, 60, a mild-spoken man with a deceptive Milquetoast look, is an open enemy of Wafdist graft, an ex-member of the Wafd executive committee who was drummed out of the party only a few months ago for fighting the wholesale corruption from within. Scion of a wealthy family, Hilaly has made a fortune of his own practicing law. He has taught law at Fuad University and served in the cabinet at various times as Minister of Education and Minister of Commerce and Industry. A moderate, with a reputation for cutting candor and a nimble...
...Just Happened." Scion of a well-to-do Cleveland family, Dave Ingalls was educated at St. Paul's and Yale, married Louise Harkness of the Standard Oil family. Dave Ingalls made the jump to politics at an early age. Armed with a Harvard law degree, a chestful of decorations as the Navy's only World War I ace (four sure kills), he was elected to the Ohio legislature at 27, won a second term on a barnstorming campaign in his own plane. With the sponsorship of an old aviator friend who knew his way around the Hoover Administration...
...Westerners recently to get a peek behind the Iron Curtain is a lanky young London banker named John Lindsay Eric Smith. Scion of a family who have been bankers since 1688, Smith went to Eton and Oxford, served in the fleet air arm, and is now a managing director of Coutts' bank. Excerpts from his report on Russia in The National & English Review, a Conservative monthly...