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...week, setting up a board to administer his brand new Social Security Act, President Roosevelt named John G. Winant chairman for a six-year term. Appointed to a four-year term on the Social Security Board was Second Assistant Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Almeyer, 44, studious, Wisconsin-born statistician and social scientist. For a two year term the President picked Vincent Morgan Miles, 48, Fort Smith, Ark. lawyer, onetime member of the Democratic National Committee...
...tempera do not fade. In Manhattan last week, one of the very few art courses in the U. S. in the technique of egg-tempera painting was under way in the Cooper Union Art School under the direction of David Turnbull, an abstract painter and onetime American Telephone & Telegraph statistician who has studied the technique of egg tempera for six years in Europe and who has collaborated on a book on the subject...
...That year a bright young Chicagoan named Francis Augustus Bonner graduated from Harvard. Yaleman Blair worked in Chicago's Northern Trust Co., famed training ground for brokers and bankers, then joined Lee, Higginson & Co. Harvardman Bonner became financial editor of the defunct Chicago Evening Post, a railroad statistician, then also joined Lee, Higginson. Last week Mr. Blair, 50, and Mr. Bonner, 49, teamed together to form the underwriting and general securities house of Blair, Bonner...
According to legend, John A. Heydler, who last month retired as president of the National League, was the first man to keep batting, pitching and fielding averages. No. 1 contemporary baseball statistician is a one-legged, dyspeptic North Carolinian named Al Munro Elias. Started in 1917, the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau Inc. now supplies some 1,000 U. S. newspapers with daily & weekly statistics, releases yearly "unofficial" figures promptly at each season's close. The strange offices of the Al Munro Elias Bureau on Manhattan's 42nd Street contain the most elaborate baseball library in the world...
...onetime shoe-clerk, dancing master and salad oil salesman, Al Munro Elias became a baseball statistician in 1914. Sick with indigestion, he took time off from work to watch ball games, amused himself by reducing them to figures. His first successful venture as a professional was a series of pamphlets sold in saloons, men's stores and hotels. The New York Evening Telegram soon began to buy his figures. In 1917, the National League made Al Munro Elias its statistician. Fourteen years ago he began to supply papers with his most famed daily feature : the leading batters...