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...medicine man was Orley Burham, a mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
...royalties on The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, published by Random House in 1938, amounted to a mere $13.50. Alumnus Roosevelt's $500 investment in the Harvard Club of New York had dwindled in value to $350. Typical debts: $22 for Hyde Park seed, $72 to a British stamp dealer, and $8.88 for newspapers...
...fast-dealing week for AVCO and a turning point in its short (17 years), fantastic, often odorous history. Germinated by the wild enthusiasm for anything with wings that followed Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, AVCO sprouted from gilt-edged seed (Lehman Brothers; Brown Bros., Harriman and Co., etc.) in March 1929, as a holding company for all branches of aviation. For a time it flew high, controlling 81 corporations. But soon it crashed into such a welter of squabbles, proxy fights and plain bad management that Wall Street quipped: "AVCO was begotten in sin and carried on in seduction...
Simon Elwes did not realize it but a seed had been planted in him. At the time, however, he all but forgot the experience. "The world of the flesh and the devil," he says, "took me back." In that world he prospered. He married a daughter of Lord Rennel of Rodd, fathered three sons. In London's Mayfair and on Manhattan's Park Avenue he established himself as a stylish portraitist. During World War II, Elwes served as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Hussars. Then last year, suddenly, blood clotted on his brain, paralyzing the right half...
...Starting Seed. In 1930 he went into commercial radio as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist," advertising bird seed. Next year, while "one of NBC's dullest announcers, and that's saying plenty," he was hit by a truck, spent four months in a hospital, listening hour after hour to the radio...