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Alfred Emanuel Smith, 54, was a living exemplar of the American Dream, big-city version. A laborer's son, he was born and raised in a shabby Irish neighborhood in Manhattan's decaying Lower East Side, left school for good at 14, a month short of completing the eighth grade, to work for a carting firm as a $3-a-week dispatcher's helper. Industrious, personable, and gifted with a flair for oratory, he early caught the eye of the Fourth Ward's Democratic political chieftains, fellow Irishmen all. When he was 21, a Fourth Ward...
Thoroughbred racing is described as the sport of kings. But the man who has sent far more winners to U.S. tracks than anyone in history has no blue - or even bluegrass - blood in his veins. He was born on Manhattan's Upper East Side and raised in Brooklyn. He cares less about equine lineage than about spotting a well-shaped colt with a cheap price...
Phenomenal Rise. Born on the sunny, frosty side of Boston's Beacon Hill, Hale grew up in Manhattan, studied at Columbia, the Sorbonne and Manhattan's Art Students League. "I really learned drawing at the League," he says gently, smiling from the corner of his Raymond Massey mouth. "You learn something when you are with it more than eight hours a day." Hale went on to become a drawing instructor at the League and elsewhere, seemed destined for genteel, professorial obscurity until 1949, when the late Metropolitan Museum director, Francis Henry Taylor, tapped him for curator of contemporary...
...Manhattan office, nibbling Muenster cheese to allay an ulcer's pang, 65-year-old Arthur Murray said that he does not think, at present, he will fight the FTC complaint. Said he: "People think the FTC is on their side, and we wouldn't want to turn the people against us." Anyway, he said, taking one step back, he has ordered most of the practices stopped...
What these figures show is that the U.S. tobacco industry, which has undergone crisis after crisis, has not only recovered nicely from the cancer scare, but is turning the unsettling side effects of the debate to its own advantage. By flooding the market with filters that promised protection from tar and nicotine, tobaccomen turned the whole market topsy-turvy. In 1952 five brands, led by Reynolds Tobacco's Camel (and followed by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike, Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield, American's Pall Mall, and Philip Morris), held 82% of the cigarette market; today that share is held...