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...keep Zapata's guerrillas from stealing his regulation Elgin watch by wearing a cheaper variety on his wrist. "It's a good thing Zapata's gone," the ad concluded. "He'd be stealing Elgins as fast as we could make them." For $1, a reader of the advertisement might write in for a "Handsome Zapata poster...
Maury claims that today he happens to agree with 98% of the News editorials and "doesn't care" about the rest. He also claims not to care about reader reaction. "I don't give much of a damn about what people think of our position," he says easily, "as long as they read us." Millions do; the News' daily circulation of 2,129,689 is the biggest...
...almost always on the phone, speaking with financial executives, economists or prominent politicians. He studies practically none of the research reports churned out by Wall Street's securities analysts ? which he claims have value mainly in a bull market?but colleagues consider him to be "the best chart reader in the business...
...Pistle to the Christian Reader, John Frith...
Ortolans and Failure. For the next 2½ years it was girls, flasks and sis-boom-bah. But the public image concealed an all-night reader who forged through Flaubert, Rimbaud, Joyce, Proust, Eliot, Pound, Cummings, Stein, Hemingway. In the fall of 1926, with a wad in his wallet and a life of leisure in view, he changed his name to Nathanael West and sailed off to Paris to join the Lost Generation. It was going to be ortolans all the way. But that winter the family fortune showed signs of imminent collapse. Early in 1927, West found himself working...