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...Guinan, "just a dumb kid." But when she climbed on top of a grand piano and sang her sultry, brokenhearted ballads, she was torchbearer for an era. When she died in Chicago last week, many a U.S. citizen heaved a nostalgic sigh for the footloose, bibulous speak-easy '20s...
...exhibition's designers, mostly in their 20s and 30s, proved that they could ingeniously solve some of the main problems of modern furniture design: lightness, mobility, ease of manufacture, comfort. Two problems remained relatively unsolved: 1) prices low enough to suit the average man's purse (sample: $75 for Saarinen and Eames's plywood chair); 2) looks handsome enough to improve the average man's home...
...night came Richard Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), of his autobiographical chiller admitted: "I added the experiences of some other people to make the book as effective as possible." Armenian Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), glossy darling of the '20s (The Green Hat), reached Manhattan by freighter from Britain, en route to Hollywood. Latest report on the other Armenian, William Saroyan: he plans to start a saloon modeled on his play, The Time of Your Life, on Manhattan's fly-blown Third Avenue...
General Hsueh Yo had been in tight spots. He had led the famous ist Division under Chiang Kai-shek in the northern march that unified China in the '20s. They had won against all the world's opposition, in the teeth of all the warlords. This week he is in a tight spot again, fighting again to hold his capital, to keep its rice for China...
...even tell myself what I'm doing until I'm through." Rubloff, 39, quit grade school to shine shoes and peddle newspapers for a living, got into real estate in 1919 as an office boy. His only departure from the Alger script was in the lush '20s: "I made plenty of dough but I spent it-while the other boys were losing theirs in the stockmarket." When he went into business for himself in 1930 he didn't have a dime. He rented a $45-a-month office, got $1,500 worth of credit from...