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Wallace has written so many Wallaces he can not remember some of them; Oppenheim has published more than 100 Oppenheims. U. S. Super-Tycoon Warren Rand was "the human riddle of two hemispheres." Cold as a fish, single-minded as an insect, his primary ambition was to make himself Richest Man in the World. Hundreds hated Tycoon Rand, scores tried to kill him. He never figured in the news, for the good reason that he controlled the world's press. But rumors were bruited. Who was the mysterious figure who was cornering the world's supply of gold...
Married. Elizabeth Evans Hughes' daughter of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and William Thomas Gossett, Manhattan lawyer in the employ of Hughes, Schurman. & Dwight; at the Hughes home in Washington, D. C. Married. Clarenore Stinnes, 29, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes. German coal, iron, steel, shipping & press tycoon; and Axel Soderstrom, 36, Swedish cinema producer, her companion last year on a round-the-world-motor trip; in London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City...
...Shakespeare would have been hanged for murder and Sophocles for incest. Poetry is the spiritual enjoyment of what one understands. I wrote my tale of the Fox because I felt deeply the beauty and the life of hunting." Editor-Sportsman A. Henry Higginson, son of the late Tycoon Henry Lee Higginson (founder of Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass., but shares the Mastership of the Cattistock Hunt with Parson Milne. He is at present the only U. S. Master of an English hunt...
Wesley was small, dictatorial, sure of himself (Wade calls him a "hard, pertinacious little paragon") but he must have had a certain charm. Literary Tycoon Sam Johnson who knew and liked him once complained: "I hate to meet John Wesley. The dog enchants you with his conversation, and then breaks away to go and visit some old woman. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk...
...shorthand school. "But Camille," Mary Garden objected, "is French. You could not expect me to sing it in English." Hamilton Forrest forthwith went to France, learned the language, studied with Composer Maurice Ravel, wrote his opera and had it accepted by the opera company headed by the light & power tycoon whose errands he used...