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Boston in 1920 was money-mad, and Ponzi had created the madness. Six months before, the 5 ft. 2 "Wizard of Finance" had been a $16-a-week clerk; now he was a millionaire. Ponzi promised to make everybody rich by paying 50% interest on investments in 90 days, or "double your money" in six months. His offer was incredible; but there were satisfied customers who seemed to prove his good faith. Thousands more pushed, scratched and fought their way into Ponzi's Securities Exchange Co., crying: "Take my money...
Known in Washington as the "statistical wizard," Bean wrote the book "How to Predict Elections" which was published prior to this year's campaign, and in which he predicted that a Democratic victory in 1948 was not improbable. Election records show that Bean has not been wrong by more than one percent in 12 years of predicting elections...
Washington Story. A Brünnhildean blonde, 52-year-old Esther Tufty is no word wizard. But rival reporters respect the egocentric energy with which she has built one of the busiest news bureaus in Washington...
...Department of Agriculture staff for the last 25 years, Bean has long been known as a statistical wizard in Washington. When Henry Wallace headed the Department, Bean was one of the inner braintrust, but unlike C. B. Baldwin and some of the other Department strategists, he has not followed Wallace to the new hunting grounds. In his Washington office he is still sorting election returns as a hobby, which in 1940 resulted in the publication of a book called "Ballot Behavior" now a text for the technical politician. His newest book, as he says, is nothing more than application...
Died. May de Sousa, 66, light-opera favorite at the turn of the century; of starvation; in a Chicago charity ward. A detective's daughter, she first sang in vaudeville, moved on to Broadway, hit her peak touring Europe in such productions as The Wizard of Oz and The Tenderfoot. She retired in 1918, moved to Shanghai, returned to the U.S. penniless in 1943, and set to work as a scrubwoman...