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...Jaffe) into a manufacturing partnership in the $10.95 dress line, cons her sister into putting up the money for her stake. Eager to climb the garment center escalator from dresses to frocks to gowns, she double-crosses Dailey by making a tricky deal with an unctuous department-store tycoon (George Sanders). But when the time comes to leave her partners bankrupt and give Sanders his price (payable in his bachelor quarters), the tigress melts into a woman with a weakness for long-suffering Salesman Dailey...
Married. Henry J. Kaiser, 68, steel, auto and shipbuilding tycoon; and Alyce Pencovic Chester, 34, nurse-companion to his first wife until her death a month ago, an officer in Kaiser's Permanente Foundation, which operates ten charity hospitals; both for the second time; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Died. Samuel Rufus Rosoff, 68, rags-to-riches construction tycoon ($50 million worth of Manhattan subways); after an operation for an intestinal ailment; in Baltimore. In 1894, at the age of twelve, he worked his way to New York from Russia, worked his way to the top with some powerful boosts from friendly Democratic politicos, became a millionaire playboy and philanthropist. Something of a bulldozer himself, he boasted that he got ahead through brawn, not brains: "What the hell. I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-and-paper work...
Died. Mrs. Bess Fosburgh Kaiser, 64, wife of Tycoon Henry J. Kaiser (ships, cars, aluminum, steel); of heart disease; in Oakland, Calif. She met Kaiser in 1905, when he was making a bare living developing snapshots, married him two years later. She made most of her husband's business trips with him, camped in tents during his early days as a building contractor. After she became ill 18 months ago, Kaiser stuck close to their Oakland apartment, slept on a cot outside her room...
...opponent of Manila's big business bosses, whom he accuses of exploiting the workers, Hogan won labor's respect last year when he walked a picket line in the strike of ground personnel against Philippine Air Lines, owned by Brewery (George Muehlbach Brewing Co., Kansas City. Mo.) Tycoon Andres Soriano (TIME...