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Some, like Frederic Felton, stuck with investment firms and "survived the shock that stocks go down as well as up--and down more quickly than up." Others, like James R. Carter, were "not emotionally suited to this type of endeavor (stock broker). My emotions rode with the tickers and inasmuch as it rode mostly steadily downward, I got out, just in time, in the summer...
...general the class, like broker Henry Cobb, has "slowly but inexorably swung farther and farther to the right . . . " Cobb is not alone in thinking that "What makes some Harvard graduates violently liberal internationalists and others violently conservative nationalists is in itself a fit subject for research and prayerful study...
...favorites at 5 to 1. Few bothered with an American-bred chestnut colt named Never Say Die. He had won only once as a two-year-old, had run three times this year and never finished first. He went off at 33 to 1. His owner, a New York broker named Robert Sterling Clark, 77, had not even come over for the race...
Died. Charles Edward Ives, 79. successful, publicity-shy Manhattan insurance broker (Ives & Myrick) and long-obscure composer, whose intricate, highly original Third Symphony (written in 1911) won him belated public recognition and a Pulitzer Prize in 1947; in Manhattan...
...friend: "Murchison does almost everything by ten thousands." But when the new Athenians really want to enjoy themselves, they make for the Koon Kreek Klub, an exclusive (i.e., mostly millionaires) tract of wilderness near Athens. There, Murchison, Richardson and such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines, and fish for bream (pronounced "brim" in Texas, and a member of the sunfish family). With guides to bait the hooks and take...