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...themselves to ankle and wrist. After a rudimentary schooling, Mea Shearim girls stay at home to help their mothers with the housework seven days a week. They may not stroll about the city, dance, see movies, go swimming, or read non-religious books. When they are 17, the marriage broker comes around...
Says a Los Angeles yacht broker, summing up the recent changes in a couple of statistics: "Before World War II there were at least 50 really big yachts here-90 ft. or more. Today, there are only 15 left. But replacing the 35 which have disappeared are at least 3,500 smaller boats." San Francisco reports a similar trend: a rise (among registered yachts only) from 1,000 in 1940 to 2,300 today; in the same period, yacht clubs in the area have increased from 20 to 34. And West Coast sailors, unlike Easterners, who generally sail in protected...
...cafe society, Broker J. (for James) Arthur Warner, 52, has long cut quite a figure. A wavy-haired frequenter of Manhattan's Stork Club and other elegant pubs, he numbered among his friends such leading lights as Walter Winchell, Ginger Rogers and Cinemogul Joseph Schenck. By cafe society standards, Warner really arrived two years ago when his second wife, a beauteous Hollywood B-movie player named Kay Buckley, walked out after exactly 21 days of marriage, with a wedding present of $100,000 in cash...
...black. It was a "coincidence," said he, that the syndicate that purchased U.S. Rubber stock in 1927 was made up of members of the Du Pont family. The reason was that Irénée's brother-in-law, W. W. Laird, was the Wilmington broker in the sale, and he had to find participants able to put in $1,200,000. The Du Fonts were the logical...
...Nevada. Then, well armed with the names and idiosyncrasies of wealthy prospects, he set out to sell bankrupt ranches as tax havens, and was soon transplanting millionaires to Nevada's soil-e.g., Bing Crosby, Max Fleischmann, Bronx Politico Ed Flynn, Automobile Magnate Errett Lobban Cord, Stock Broker Dean Witter...