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Album of Fantasias (Grace Castagnetta, pianist; Timely*: 8 sides). An anthology including works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Scriabin and Shostakovich, some of them previously unrecorded. Capably performed, magnificently recorded, with an explanatory pamphlet by Author Hendrik Van Loon...
Scheming, ambitious third son of a Dutch sailor, Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding quit his job in an Amsterdam bank at 22 to seek his fortune with The Netherlands Trading Society in the East Indies. He quit the Society to seek his fortune with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was director of a little company with a big name: The Royal Dutch Company for the Working of Petroleum Wells in the Dutch East Indies. When Kessler died in 1900, Royal Dutch had wells all over the Dutch East Indies and markets all over the East. Deterding succeeded...
...Judges of the $250,000 Movie Quiz Contest, announced last week: New York's Representative Bruce Barton, Boy Scout Leader James E. West, Tennist Helen Wills Moody, Author Hendrik Willem van Loon, Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune...
Energetic Yaleman Turck last month officially announced the formation of Holland House, with such potent directors as Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson, Standard Oil of New Jersey's W. S. Farish, Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon...
...Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal...