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...newcomer to that small group of U. S. athletes for whom a stop watch is as conventional an accessory for public bathing as a pair of trunks, Flanagan last week was making what sportswriters call a "comeback'' at an age when many of his contemporaries are barely learning how-to swim. Son of a retired Miami butcher, Ralph Flanagan was discovered in 1926 at a newsboys' party, by Swimming Coach Steve Forsyth, who developed Katherine Rawls. By 1931, he had broken his first national record (1,650 yd. free style). He was on the Olympic team...
Probably no living artist has painted quite so many kings, queens, tycoons and great ladies as small, bald, dynamic Philip de Laszlo. Yet for 20 years Glazier Salisbury has run him a close second on the strength of a pair of bristling eyebrows, an impressive forehead, a slick, completely artificial technique and a series of truly magnificent lavender cravats...
...lives in what he likes to call "the last house in South Braintree, Massachusetts" with his musical daughter Vera, his son Robert, a black cat and a pair of bluebirds. Forty-three years in the U. S. have not changed an accent that would make the fortune...
...shiny, black limousines, Manhattan's top-notch socialites rolled up to a musty midtown mansion, hurried past a pair of guards and through a big stone doorway. Inside, J. Pierpont Morgan was giving a dance for his eldest granddaughter, Junius Spencer Morgan's debutante daughter Louise. For every young friend of Louise, Grandfather Morgan had invited four of his own associates. All over the house prowled detectives to keep out "crashers" and newshawks. In the library Physick, the Morgan Butler, presided proudly over the first big entertainment since Mrs. Morgan died nine years before. At 9:30 Host...
...worker in the factory he now owns, President Johnson is conspicuous among tycoons for his liberal and friendly labor policy. Every time a baby leaves one of the three company-owned maternity hospitals, it carries tucked away in its blankets a bank book with a $10 deposit and a pair of baby shoes with the compliments of George F. Johnson. With an enlightened paternalism rare in the early day of Big Business, President Johnson spent millions on his workers' welfare, shared earnings with them, paid their hospital bills, gave them swimming pools, merry-go-rounds, tennis courts, called them...