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...City. It fitted naturally into Transamerica Corp.'s branch-banking setup. San Franciscans had another and more popular explanation: that was the bad blood between Banker Giannini and Arnold John Mount, broad-shouldered, bespectacled head of Bank of Oakland. The purchase was spite work. Snapped Lawrence Mario Giannini, swart, enigmatic heir apparent to his father's banking empire: "Ridiculous nonsense...
Bolivia's Foreign Minister, Enrique Finot, also recently a minister to Washington; tall, swart, fiery, jingoistic, still an aggressive U. Sophobe...
...Olympic Games well-publicized as high-strung, hard-boiled contests of national brawn, the fact that the original Peloponnesian games brought together poets and artificers as well as wrestlers, runners and javelin hurlers is of importance chiefly to classicists. But for years that fact has been bothering a sturdy, swart Philadelphian named Samuel Stuart Fleisher. Since he and his brother Edwin retired from their prosperous family cotton yarn mills, they have collected art and musical manuscripts, busied themselves with philanthropies, gently propagated Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last...
Into the still unopened Hotel Reforma, soon to be one of Mexico City's swankest, burst swart, baggy-breeched Diego de Rivera at the head of a group of 20 gesticulating young men. Before they could commit much of a nuisance, alarmed neighbors summoned police who questioned Rivera and his loudest companions, found that the group was fortified with not one but five revolvers...
William Jameson distilled his first batch of whiskey in Ireland in 1752, aged it in sherry casks. The company he founded is still making whiskey in Dublin although no Jameson has been in the firm since 1905. Present president of William Jameson & Co., Ltd. is smart, swart Lionel Marks. Last year Mr. Marks observed that during Prohibition the taste for malty Irish whiskey seemed to have dwindled away in the U. S., sought co-operation of National Distillers to get Jameson's consumed somehow. Their new "Irish-American" product is 25% pot-still Irish, 20 years...