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...Line them up on the rear wall," he added to one of four assistants. Soon the diners, shivering and ashamed, their skinny, ponderous or hirsute legs exposed to the gaze of the facetious bandits, stood along one end of the restaurant. The robbers searched their "pants" for valuables extracted a total of $400. One of them devoted an idle moment to robbing the cigar counter...
...trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. He knows what it is like to pot German soldiers scaling a garden wall; to ski in the Tyrol; to bum on Canadian freight trains; to be in love, just at first and then really. How he knows things you cannot say; he writes so directly, without fuss and feathers, with so little explanation of himself. He is that rare bird, an intelligent young...
...curious and gossipy public. This is only another indication of his uniqueness. A short time ago his photograph flashed in all the newspapers showing him posed upon a diving board and looking for all the world like a bathing beauty in whiskers. Now he joins the exclusive circle of Wall Street as possessor of his own code signature...
Last week witnessed the introduction to the buying public of another great family business. At a figure between 60 and 75 millions, suave, saturnine Clarence Dillon,* 43-year old chief of Dillon, Read & Co., Wall St., Manhattan, took over the assets and liabilities of the National Cash Register Co. (Dayton, Ohio) and invited the public to assimilate 60 millions worth of new securities with correctly calculated confidence that his invitation would not be ignored...
Clarence Dillon is not the first genius to appear on Wall Street, but all geniuses have their special characteristics. Besides honesty, foresight, courage and decision, what distinguishes this Texas-born, Harvard-bred, widely-traveled young man is an attitude toward business - and life - that is commonly called the artistic attitude. What other men make a labor, he makes an art. Before he tried his hand at business he idled in Europe for two years studying art and architecture. "I never expected to become a professional painter, or to build houses," he says, but he still delights to execute an etching...