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...fine spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly publishing scheme: limited editions. "Wait here for me," said Straus. A few minutes later he reappeared, handed Macy a fistful of checks. They were for $1,000 each. To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls...
Prosperous Publisher Connett wants to publish a full sporting history of the U. S. but his most serious problem is getting his sharpshooting authors to write at all. So urgent is Publisher Connett's search for new authors that he has cut down his own hunting and fishing to two days a week, has resigned from all but three rod & gun clubs, one yacht club...
After days of fruitless search, Robert I. Myerson '42 is still missing, although the police of four states have broadcast his description. No reports have been received as yet, and the Freshman seems to have completely vanished...
...State Police of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire entered the search for Robert L. Myerson '42, when a description of the student, missing since last Thursday, was sent out over the radio and teletype last evening. This action was authorized by the boy's father, Joseph G. Myerson of Brooklyn, New York who only wants to get in communication with his son, Myerson said...
...months of work were about to go to naught, the University stepped in. After recanvassing the real estate agencies and finding that even Harvard University could not rent a dining hall near the Square, they began to look nearer home. Under their very eyes they found what weeks of search had failed to produce; and if one is inclined to wonder why the basement of Andover Hall was such an elusive-prize, only praise can be offered for the way in which the whole matter was finally concluded...