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...fixture is in ebony finish, trimmed in colors to match any wall. It is four feet long, of regulation height (43 in.) and about six glasses deep. Beneath the bar is a serving shelf large enough to hold four dozen quart bottles. The bar itself is concave to admit the paunch of an old-time 'tender. When not in use the whole thing can be folded up, stowed away in a closet if, of course, the bottles have first been disposed...
...French town after it had been shelled. U. S. doughboys were giving their sweethearts images of these lucky lovers, little dolls made of worsted Duncan took the name for his dogs. The bitch died, but Rin Tin Tin reached California. Duncan taught him to climb a 17-ft. wall, to do countless tricks. When picture studios wanted a dog, they rented...
...title usually reserved for members only, is used in San Francisco to designate "Customers' Men." Many of these "Floormen" also serve as alarm clocks, awakening customers at an appointed hour to give them tidings from New York. Just as the New York Stock Exchange is on Broad, not Wall Street, the San Francisco Exchange is on Sansome Street instead of Montgomery, "Wall Street of the West...
...Wall Street's tribulations affected the sale of Fine Art only in December. This decline was offset, however, by heavy buying earlier in the year. Total business was reported to have exceeded that of any year since 1913. Approxmately one-third of the $250,000,000 was spent on old masters. Chief buyers: Collector Thomas Benedict Clarke, Banker Jules Semon Bache, Motorman Lawrence P. Fisher, Financier-Socialite Joseph E. Widener, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn, many a museum. Chief buy: Delia Francesco's The Crucifixion bought from Anderson Galleries by Sir Joseph Duveen...
...Directors" or "Council of Directors"' used by many foreign banks. Into this position will go Albert Henry Wiggin, genial, well-known Chairman of Chase. Banker Wiggin is really self-made, having no college education, no "affiliations." A strenuous hiker, he often made the famed passage of "from Midtown to Wall Street," with Charles Hamilton Sabin of Guaranty Trust and the late Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. Almost as prime as Chase is among banks is his collection of etchings. Although he has neither the promotional instincts of Charles Edwin Mitchell, nor the international skill of the Warburgs...