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| 1. | B(ertie) C(harles), 1880–1954, U.S. financial journalist, publisher, and financier. |
| 2. | Esther, 1894?–1967, U.S. novelist. |
| 3. | George William, 1869–1947, New Zealand statesman: prime minister 1930–35. |
| Forbes (fôrbz) American publisher and businessman who founded and edited (1916-1954) Forbes magazine. His son Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919-1990), who assumed the editorship in 1957, was an avid collector and set six world records in hot-air ballooning in 1973. |