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When the cruel glee of his acquaintances had subsided sufficiently to let him go out and about once more, Broker Burton, who had been ordered by the National Steeplechase & Hunt Association to turn in his amateur's license, gave his case, which he believed a likely one for libel damages, to a law firm which retained as trial counsel dapper Attorney Murray Bernays. They prepared to bring suit against the crack Manhattan advertising agency of William Esty & Co., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, and a long list of publications, headed by Crowell Publishing...
Thus given his day in court. Broker Burton last week diffidently but plainly told a jury what his colleagues at the Exchange had said to him about his picture. They had. he said, asked him "how it felt" and "how much he made from renting it out." When the jury came in, Mr. Burton was not $75,000 but $2,500 richer. Disappointed, his attorneys turned their attention to the case of Burton v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.. which is to start this week with $200,000 asked...
Some years ago His Majesty King Zog posted with the more reputable European marriage brokers an offer of $5,000 for a bride "suitable to become Queen of Albania," and willing. Tirana, the mountainous little kingdom's capital, is regarded among diplomats as the "worst hole" in Europe. In a famed instance, lonely King Zog through his telescope espied from the Royal Palace four traveling salesmen playing cards in their Tirana hotel bedroom, telephoned over to ask if he could come and join the game. The defects of Tirana, plus His Majesty's extreme addiction to chain-smoked...
...broker some months ago showed His Majesty an extremely complete set of pictures giving King Zog a good idea of some few dozen European titled women all primed to become his Queen. The 41-year-old King liked best the pictures of 19-year-old Countess Johanna von Mikes, a Hungarian. The Portuguese broker chartered an airplane, retained the services of two chaperons and flew Countess Johanna to Tirana just in time for King Zog to have her for Christmas...
...gain a victory. When Otis bought the Murray Ohio stock originally, the big stockholders it bought from agreed not to dump any of their remaining shares on the market for a certain length of time, a fact which was not stated in the offering prospectus. Bullish for the broker though such a statement would have been, the Court held that it should have been published, ordered that the like be published in future. Said the Otis lawyers last week: "The question as to what information should be contained in the prospectus has been the subject of a good deal...