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...steady energy of the English, nor the intense, if sometimes wasteful, energy of the American, nor the exacting Pflichtgefühl of the Germans. . . . [Mussolini's] extraordinary laborious life is founded upon the robust vitality and physique of a burly, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, rather short, well-knit athletic person...
...canny, close-knit, tight-lipped clan are the Browns but Depression in the paper & pulp industry was too much for even them. Though they carefully kept all common stock within the family, both preferred stock and bonds were sold to the public. Preferred dividends were stopped in 1931 but despite a series of deficits footing up to more than $14,000,000 in four years, bond interest was paid promptly. Last week, however, with "deepest regret," the Browns announced that they would have to default their obligations. They admitted that business was better in the first half of this year...
Habitual loafers on Boston Common know enough not to be alarmed by anything that happens in that calm and curious little park. Last week, however, they were mildly surprised to see a collection of 100 or so women congregate, sit down on camp chairs and start furiously to knit. The knitting turned out to be part of Boston's tercentenary celebration and it commemorated a spinning contest held there 182 years ago which ended in a riot when some 600 Boston husbands took exception to the distribution of prizes. Last week, loafers on the Common waited hopefully...
...fair candidate for the title of No. 1 U. S. male knitter, John Farnum Cann, unlike the Prince of Wales who took up knitting during the War but soon gave it up for polo, has knitted all his life. He learned 56 years ago when, at the age of 10 in Yarmouth. N. S., his mother found that his five brothers and two sisters wore out their stockings faster than she could supply them. From stockings, Knitter Cann progressed to sweaters, caps, and fancy afghans. He grew up, married a girl who liked to knit, adopted the profession of male...
...that meant that the company was pensioning him off, Mr. Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek. The Pratt family's interest in Socony is exceeded only by that of the Rockefellers, Harknesses and Whitneys. And the Pratt family is a close-knit unit. On a 1,000-acre tract in lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout...