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...start in his father's real estate firm, shifted to American Can Co., later went into roofing. A broker since 1910, he became senior partner of F. M. Zeiler & Co. in 1923. Handsome, humorous, immaculately dressed, "Brick" Benson likes to fish, play golf, lives in suburban Winnetka. Asked about the outlook for U. S. securities, Broker Benson declared: "In spite of all talk about inflation and so forth, there is no place in the world where money is as safe as it is here...
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...patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before he became Secretary of the Interior. He bred it at his home in Winnetka, Ill., named it "Anna W. Ickes" for his wife...
...from motherless, day or night, is the weeping infant in the Union Central Life Insurance Co. advertisement. He is Robert Jr., happy 18-month-old son of Lawyer & Mrs. Robert Burch of Winnetka, swank Chicago suburb. The Burches let their son pose as a favor to their friend, Photographer Arthur Dailey of Evanston, Ill., who had received an order for "a photo of a healthy baby with lots of personality, crying as if its heart would break ... a cry of neglect and not of anger." Photographer Dailey worked for more than an hour to make happy Baby Burch feel neglected...
...Banker Hall became assistant publicity director for the Harris bank, was a crack bond salesman at the time of the War, learned while overseas that he had been made sales manager of the bank's investment department. Stocky, round-faced, brown-eyed, bald, Banker Hall lives in swank Winnetka, golfs...