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Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., Dartmouth freshman, son of the motor tycoon, put forth with friends last week The Five Arts ($5 for the first three issues), a magazine bound like a book, superior in typography to any other U. S. undergraduate publication, illustrated with photographs of drawings and sculpture by Dartmouth men. Said the undergraduate daily Dartmouth: "Definitely better than one's best expectations. . . . The . . . project will have to step carefully to avoid the . . . error of being too consciously arty...
Divorced. Sir James Heath. 78, British iron tycoon; by Lady Mary Heath, aviatrix (Capetown-to-London); at Reno, Nev. She called Sir James "the tight knight," said he was "a bit touched...
Anniversary. Alvin Schmidt, Swiss manufacturing tycoon, and Frau Schmidt; their silver wedding. Celebration: a 9 hr. 20 min. joyride with 34 guests over the Alps from Basle in the Graf Zeppelin, chartered...
Last week Drug Tycoon Liggett arranged to buy in another product, Vick's Vapo-Rub, made by Vick Chemical Co., one of the U. S. Big Eight. And in prospect is his purchase, through American Home Products Corp. (a third one of the Eight and one in which Mr. Liggett controls some capital stock), of its trademarked preparations of magnesia, digestants, cosmetics, hair tonics, floor wax, varnish remover, patent medicines, toothpaste (including Kolynos). With so many products and so many stores, Drug, Inc. is becoming what Mr. Liggett would privately like to say but publicly disclaims: practically the last...
...exhausted by the day's work, stand, half-comatose, at the bar of an old-fashioned saloon; between long, refreshing pulls at their schooners they utter, effortlessly and comfortingly, their dazed views on the fall of empires and the rise of Henry Ford." He has little respect for Tycoon Ford, calls him "a typical specimen of the anti-cultural American." The Mob, says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science is anachronistic. "The discarded scientific concepts of the last three centuries are on the grow. The scientist cannot stop them from growing because they...