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Editor George Horace Lorimer of Saturday Evening Post was able to lead off his April 2 issue with an up-to-the-moment article???a "last talk" with the late Ivar Kreuger, recorded by his good friend & admirer, Isaac Frederick Marcosson, able tycoon interviewer. Although the "last talk" was an innocuous compendium of Herr Kreuger's views on international finance, its publication indirectly certified the aura of greatness surrounding the matchmaker and moneylender who had shot himself (TIME, March...
...long days of leisure mixed with archaic studies; a temple of wit & learning, the bright fane of Anglo-Saxon civilization. Seldom does one of its paragons emerge actually to be seen and heard, but last week Princeton undergraduates had the privilege of observing and listening to the genuine Oxford article???pink-&-white, good-looking Randolph Churchill, 19, son of England's famed and effervescent Statesman Winston Churchill, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Crane, lots of others. The real article???starving after 40 and 50 years of incessant toil, squeezed dry and cast aside, no good for anything but this sideshow. Case 56 is pretty: 'chuckle-voiced, hat-doffing Charlie the Iceman.' Now 'Charlie's on the shelf. Old and sick and done for. And forgotten.' Listen to Gene Tunney himself on the superb specimen in case 46: Mr. and Mrs. Pat Malloy, 74 years old, worked all their lives, k.o.'d by a taxicab going home from work. Now 'the grey end. . . . They are slaves of a social system. . . . Nothing they...