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...friend once said of Ohio Realtor John Wilmer Galbreath: "The thing you must remember is that John must have success." At 52, John has it. When his old friend Senator John Bricker was attorney general of Ohio, Galbreath was named a real estate appraiser for the state. (Later he and Bricker formed an insurance company together.) Galbreath spread into the real estate business on his own, became president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, and bought an estimated $10 million worth of property scattered from Hoboken, N.J. to Utah. He also became part owner (with Bing Crosby...
...guard her own eyes from glare. Twenty-six years ago she was stricken with glaucoma, an eye disease that often causes blindness. While waiting for her eyes to heal after an operation she began to wonder what she could do for her surgeon, the late Dr. William Holland Wilmer. She raised nearly $5,000,000 among his patients to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Four years ago a group of Manhattan eye surgeons asked her to help start the eye bank. She is now executive director...
...temporarily off." That sounded more like a sport-writer than a play reviewer-and it was, sure enough. The reviewer, who got off to a somewhat better start than Sundown Beach (see THEATER), was John Lardner, 36, chipperest off the old block of all the late great Humorist Ringgold Wilmer Lardner's four sons...
Married. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner Jr., 31, Hollywood writer (Woman of the Year), son of the late great humorist; and Radio Actress Frances Chaney Lardner, 27, widow of Ring's brother David, war correspondent killed near Aachen; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...moral of Dr. Wilmer's story: syphilis can be cured if caught early and treated adequately. But the author's deft cartooning somehow defeats his lofty medical purpose. Corky emerges as such a dashing, ingenious little cuss that perverse readers may find him the hero of the piece...