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...Method. With The Big Money John Dos Passos brought to a close one of the most ambitious projects that any U. S. novelist has undertaken. The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money run to 1,449 pages, detail the careers of some 13 major characters and a host of minor ones, picture such widely separated locales as pre-War Harvard, Wartime Paris, Miami during the Florida boom, Hollywood, Greenwich Village, Detroit. This trilogy also includes 27 brief biographies of such representative public figures as Steinmetz, Luther Burbank, Henry Ford, Sam Insull, Hearst, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, artfully spaced throughout...
King Edward on his 42nd birthday morn looked out on a London in which almost every one of his male subjects wore a daisy, buttercup, pansy or garden rose in his buttonhole to honor His Majesty. These simple flowers were worn by Edward VIII's express wish that his birthday should not become a "florists' racket." It was more correct to wear a posy plucked in one's own garden than the costliest gardenia...
...first was Young & Ottley, launched in 1929 with the financial aid of a fellow Yaleman named James Henry Ottley. Young & Ottley promptly established itself by calling the stock-market crash. In 1933 young Mr. Young pulled out of Young & Ottley, moved from Manhattan's Chanin Building diagonally across 42nd Street to the Chrysler Building. There with new backers, notably James Cox Brady, Mr. Young set up an-other investment counsel firm called C. W. Young & Co., with himself as president and owner of 55% of the stock. C. W. Young & Co. prospered. It now has more than...
Undaunted by the impressive barouche drawn by two spirited plugs and a coachman with a fondness for beer, the CRIMSON nine (teen) soundly trounced the Lampoon's ball club 23-2 in the annual encounter on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. It was the 42nd game which the legitimate editors have garnered by the same score...
...college track crop are Philadelphia and Des Moines. Many runners prefer the spectacle of the Penn Relays staged at Franklin Field. Others yield to the extravagant ballyhoo of the Drake Relays, held in that tiny University's huge horseshoe stadium. Last week Philadelphia's 42nd enticed 3,000 entries from schools and colleges; Des Moines' 27th, 2,000. Both groups gave spectators few records, many thrills...