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...Eaton lives on in a manner which wholly belies his business disasters. He has abandoned his palatial Euclid Avenue house (along with other Clevelanders who shared his faith ) but at his country home in nearby Northfield a butler still answers the door, stable boys mind the horses and a half-dozen gardeners putter around the 200-acre estate, and he is still Master of Hounds at the Summit Hunt Club. He has a small office in vastly-deflated Otis & Co., his old investment banking firm, but his business activities, if any, are a mystery to Cleveland...
...used, which Maestro James Joyce used before them, Halper has neatly stitched together a story contemporary, kaleidoscopically eye-witnessing as a newsreel, but more dramatically edited than most cinema. Union Square's action is more continuous but less comprehensive than Dos Passos' more ambitious book. With a half-dozen main characters, a score of walk-on parts, the story gives an animated, life-like cross-section of teeming Manhattan...
Their weekly Washington letter ($25 per year) is a careful reflection of Capital sentiment on fiscal questions, with pros & cons duly weighed. It is long on discussion, short on prediction. In general it takes a long-range view. A half-dozen staffmen maintain personal contacts on Capitol Hill and in. government departments. The letters are compiled in the Munsey Building...
...meet was happily free of fatalities, but at one point the shocked audience thought it was about to witness one. A half-dozen Marine planes came screaming down upon the field in a formation dive. All pulled out of it except one. piloted by Lieut. Glenn M. Britt, which continued to shoot earthward at 300 m.p.h. About 250 ft. above the ground Lieut. Britt jumped clear, pulled his ripcord. His 'chute barely billowed open before he struck the ground, just after his plane crashed in front of the grandstand. Lieut. Britt picked himself up, hurried to a microphone, greeted...
...years since Calvin Bullock founded his investment business in Denver. From a small local securities dealer, he spread into Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and a half-dozen other big cities. Able Hugh Bullock, only son of 'the founder, opened the Manhattan office a few years after he was graduated from Williams in 1921. In fact but not in name it is now the head office. All but one of its executive personnel (who have no titles) are Denver men, as are most of the branch office managers. Its research department is famed for Statistician John Walker Barriger...