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When he got out of the Army in 1946, Seymour Waldman, 25, had no particular relish for his old job as a letter writer in a Chicago mail-order house. Instead, he "studied up on steel," and with $5,000 saved and borrowed, set up the Emergency Steel Service Corp., a company dedicated to "easing the troubles of businessmen with no established sources of steel supply." In short, he became a grey-marketeer in steel. This year alone, Waldman, whose only sales instrument is the telephone, took in $7,000,000, expects to end 1951 with a profit...
Last week Waldman and seven other "steel brokers" told a Senate subcommittee, headed by Michigan Senator Blair Moody, how they managed to pluck so many blossoms from the "daisy chain" between steel mill and steel user...
...grales, Density 21.5, lonization, etc. (Rene Le Roy, flute; New York Wind Ensemble, Juilliard Percussion Orchestra, Frederic Waldman conducting; Elaine Music Shop, 2 sides LP). Percussionist Edgard Varèse is a Buck Rogers of music whose drummings, thumpings, clangings and shrillings make the compositions of such modernists as Stravinsky seem old-fashioned arid conventional. Here is a full sampling for the hardy. Recording: good...
...Clark, head of the division of analytical chemistry at the University of Illinois, reported that the Magic Spikes he had tested contained no vrilium-whatever it might be-but merely ½,000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive" Magic Spikes in the courtroom. The judge and jurors heard no telltale...
...Waldman devotes other portions of his back to such men as Luke Appling, Gene Bearden, Alvin Dark, Bob (Mr. Team) Elliott, Jim Hegan, Tommy Henrich, Ben Hogan, Johnny Mize, Jackie Robinson, Johnny Sain, Vern Stephens, Doak Walker, and four-fifths of the 1948 Kentucky basketball team--Barker, Beard, Grozs, and Jones...