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...Other observers think of small, dusky "Father" Divine, born George Baker somewhere in the South, as an amiable cultist who does genuinely useful welfare work with large sums of money whose source remains as obscure as the biography of Father Divine himself. In the interest of religious history, smallish, baldish Dr. Robert Ernest Hume, professor of the History of Religions at Union Theological Seminary, set out one Sunday last month to get the Divine record straight. The resulting interview was printed fortnight ago in The Spoken Word, Divine newsorgan. Of more interest to psychologists than theological historians, the Divine revelations...
...baldish, hard-driving man of 44, Colonel Gorrell was graduated from West Point and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went to chase Pancho Villa in Mexico as adjutant of the ist Aero Squadron. In the War he fought on all five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned...
...California, has deposits of more than $1,000,000,000, is the biggest U. S. bank outside Manhattan. Mario Giannini is operating head, second-in-command when his famed father is there, chief executive officer when his father is absent, which is about five months of the year. Slight, baldish, Mario Giannini is at 41 a veteran of one of the classic wars of U. S. financial history-the long Depression fight in which old Amadeo Giannini lost, then regained control of Transamerica Corp., owner of Bank of America. Son Mario has a severe Latin countenance, a subtle, acute intelligence...
Virginian's board chairman is Adrian Hoffman Larkin, executor of the Rogers' estate. Active head is President Carl Bucholtz, a heavy, thick-set baldish bachelor who makes his home in Norfolk's old Monticello Hotel. A graduate of Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific and Erie, he often eats perched on a stool in the hotel's coffee shop, is rated a good judge of fine whiskeys, has never been photographed, wastebaskets all inquiries from Who's Who, which does not list...
...Short, baldish, TWA Pilot Edward A. Bellande, who landed seven passengers with only one minor injury, saved most of his mail when his plane caught fire between San Francisco and Los Angeles...