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...Read. In 1928 he sold his partnership (for a reputed $2,000,000). He started his own company and made money during the depression by specializing in small stock-&-bond issues while most underwriters piled up deficits waiting in vain for the return of the boom of the '20s...
Vogue ran far ahead of this chill and modest ambition. Throughout the '20s and '30s, in its pages Nast decided what made fashion-sense in the welter of Parisian, New York and Hollywood ideas, about everything from decor to dogs. The Dest-dressed women in all U.S. towns were Vogue subscribers; stores fought to listed as outlets for goods advertised in Vogue, and thus the Nast judgments set patterns far beyond Vogue's own cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani...
...that would fill several dime thrillers, has got rich and gone broke in such disparate ventures as peddling old Haitian ships to the U.S. Government in World War I; driving a milk truck in Wilmington; buying and selling land in Florida's real estate boom of the '20s...
...wealth and ruin, made assorted monsters of his wife and children, and left him in the end with a certain indestructible magnificence. It is the vivid history of Delta cotton and the people who raised it, from the day when they cleared the first land to the early '20s, when cotton let them down and the great Northern combines took over...
Bill Hay knows his Bible. He won a Bible prize at the age of ten, has read his well-thumbed copy of the Scriptures over the radio some 2,500 times since the late '20s. He likes to skip around in the Bible, adds a psalm if he has finished a reading before his time is up. The 23rd Psalm is a favorite. It "is always good," he says, "for a 45-second filler...