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Against a Closed Shop. The son of a bullfighter, Manolete had been born into that world of stylized drama, of vanity, vulgar pomp and sublime grace. He was as great as Belmonte, who dominated the "golden age" of the '20s. Manolete followed the restrained, classical tradition of Belmonte, but he worked even closer to the bulls, spinning them around him, horns a fraction of an inch away. Manolete could do this without bravado, relaxed, dignified, almost pensive...
...this todo, polls showed that, though a majority of U.S. women disliked the new styles, all but a handful planned to wear them. Oldsters recalled that there had been a furor, too, over the hobble skirt of the early 1900s and the above-the-knee skirt of the '20s, yet fashion had prevailed...
...many a Canadian, life south of the border looked better than it had since the booming '20s. In the first six months of 1947, 21,000 Canadians, more than in all 1946, picked up permanent U.S. residence visas and headed south...
...claiming that she had contracted radiation sickness in a war-job at Westinghouse's Bloomfield, NJ. plant. Her illness, marked by fibrous degeneration of both lungs and a slow wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused by inhaling beryllium dust, used in the manufacture of fluorescent lamps...
...month bond salesman in Cleveland; in 1916 he went into investment banking for himself. He made his first killing in 1921, buying up depressed Liberty Bonds. Traders first began to notice him when he became a big buyer of Canadian bonds. In the bull market of the '20s, he loaded up heavily with Woolworth and Montgomery Ward when they were low-priced, made millions when they spiraled and were split. One of the few to unload before the 1929 crash, he doubled his fortune by going short...