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...name means a profane, bespectacled young capitalist whose life has been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works and the Stinson passenger airplane business...
...years of age, weighs 179 pounds and is 5 feet 9 inches tall. He prepared for Harvard at Lawrenceville. His home is in New York City. He swims the 440 yard free style and the 220 yard free style with an approximate time of 2m. 20s. In the 220 and 5m. 16s. in the 440. He is a member of the varsity 400 yard relay team which holds the Harvard and Pool record of 3m. 37s. The team is made up of Donald N. McKay '38, Dario C. Berizzi '38, John J. Colony Jr. '37 and Charles G. Hutter...
...Capt. Sam. Gookin July 25, 1733 had a note to the Steward, to receive 20s for himself, and 10s apiece for Sam. Whittemore, Abraham Watson, Thomas Kidder, Wm. Morse, Tho. Soden, Nath. Cutter; for walking about near ye College, on Commencement day last in ye evening, and ye night following to prevent riots and disorders...
...Graybar Building and tends as strictly and shrewdly to A. & P. finances as he did when, as a plump boy of 15, he counted A. & P. money in the cashier's cage on Vesey Street. In his homely way he decided that things were going too fast in the 20s. In 1927, he put his heavy foot down and ordered A. & P. to make no leases for over one year ahead. That policy saved his company millions of dollars in Depression...
Zelda Fitzgerald loved motion and dance. For a while she studied in Paris under Maria Egarova, onetime ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. But she was in her middle 20s, too old to become a good ballet dancer. She left school, recording her adventures in a thinly disguised autobiography, Save Me the Waltz. She also began to paint seriously...