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Collecting letters, manuscripts and books about Browning he found an expensive hobby for a teacher. During the 1920s the Armstrong Educational Tours, which he organized, flourished. He traveled all over the world with them. One year, his travel agency grossed $1,000,000. Extra money went into Browningiana. And every spare hour Armstrong worked over his collection, carefully unpacking, arranging, cataloguing his treasures. Said his wife: "I'm an in-law of Browning...
...years. When the mill, short of cash, collapsed in the depression, Dumaine was raked over at a congressional hearing for the way he had run the company. But Dumaine was already busy with another baby: the Waltham Watch Co. He had bought control in the 1920s when the company was run down, and made it tick. Until recent years, when he began cutting down his activities in favor of more horseback riding near his Groton, Mass, home, Dumaine had a hand in running, as a director, a score of big Eastern companies...
Kuniyoshi made his reputation in the 1920s with relatively cheerful designs featuring plump ladies in swimming, cows, babies and trapeze artists fitted together in orientally flat, bird's-eye perspectives. They caught collectors' fancies, earned him money and leisure enough to take up golf. In one self-portrait he carries a golf club as proudly as a samurai sword...
...Phoenix, Ariz., 54-year-old Walter ("Dutch") Reuther, great southpaw pitcher of the 1920s, marched out to the mound. His assignment: to make a pitcher out of the New York Giants' young Clint Hartung, who could put plenty of speed on a ball but not a wrinkle of a curve. Just a year ago in spring training, Hartung (then an outfielder) was hailed as the most promising rookie of the year; but when it became apparent early in the season that he couldn't catch a fly-ball, Hartung was converted into a pitcher. He wasn...
...1920s business news was especially depersonalized. To get business out of the dusty gloom of the financial pages, to tell what one TIME editor called "the vast and lurid and exciting and beautiful bibliography of balance sheets," TIME broke new ground. It went to great pains to get a picture of Sosthenes Behn (the only available picture had a beard which he had shaved long before), and introduced the Hartford brothers to their A. & P. stores' customers. Out of those efforts grew FORTUNE. Even in its early years, TIME was highly selective about the three-inch, one-column portraits...