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...warm-blooded, quick-witted, supersensitive, argument-loving man of 51 with a bald sloping brow, bulging eyes, and the slightly travel-worn air of a shambling, sub-leonine cat. At University of Chicago he is remembered as one of the two brightest students of pre-war generations. (The other: Benjamin Cohen.) Son of law-loving Chicago Lawyer Herman Frank, Jerome had a reputation for legal brilliance almost before he started practice. This he increased with the firm of Levinson, Becker, Schwartz & Frank, corporate specialists. Jerome also developed a reputation for hard work and absentmindedness. Asking his secretary to come...
...Benjamin H. Landing Jr., Findlay, Ohio; John E. Leffler, Waban; Woodbridge Marshall, Altadena, Calif.; Judson T. Shaplin, Reading, Pa.; Keith R. Symon, Terre Haute, Ind.; and John H. Wulsin, Cincinnati, Ohio
Nominations for the second Senior balloting were made by a committee headed by Edward C. K. Read '40, recently elected Class Odist, and including Arthur Cantor, John E. Crane, Paul Olum, Ernest J. Sargeant, Benjamin S. West, and H. Holton Wood, all Seniors...
...Benjamin Fairless...
...flooded the land with such objets d'art as hammered copper book ends, goatskin table covers, leather pillows, mattresses, mission furniture, ferneries. As inventor of signed ads for Big Business, Fra Elbertus reached most millions of all. Sometimes he was called a combination of a dozen geniuses including Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Emerson and William Morris; other times, a combination of P. T. Barnum, Robert G. Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher...