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Left. By the late Franklyn Laws Hutton (TIME, Dec. 16), Manhattan broker: to the Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, "a loving father's blessing for her future happiness" (adding that what money he could leave her would be "quite inconsequential"); to his widow, Mrs. Irene C. Hutton, with whom he became reconciled after last year repudiating her debts, his entire estate...
Died. Franklyn Laws Hutton, 64, dapper little Manhattan broker, father of the Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, whose huge Woolworth fortune, inherited through his first wife, he managed so shrewdly that his daughter became the "richest girl in the world"; at his plantation near Charleston...
Last week two New York Stock Exchange seats were sold by disgusted broker-owners for $33,000 each, lowest price since 1899. Even in 1933, Wall Streeters paid up to $250,000 for seats. But by last week, the 26th of U. S. industry's post-Flanders upward trend, it looked as though Wall Street was one place in the U. S. where the defense program was definitely depressing...
...Negro paid his dollar. Then he took his "checkbook" to the nearest liquor store, which promptly called the Better Business Bureau, set Manager Gordon Smith investigating. The National Depository of America, he found, is the brain child of Frank O'Hearn, a former Toronto broker. Since 1932 his avocation has been economic theorizing. Its culmination is the National Depository, whose purpose is to "bring permanent prosperity to America." Its details he guards with crusty jealousy. After all, says O'Hearn, it took him eight years to figure out the scheme, so he doesn't expect anybody...
Enemies of opera in English often argue that most translations are bad. For his Bartered Bride Director Levin took a standard translation, freely paraphrased it, so that the marriage broker sang, "I know a honey with lots of money" instead of the conventional translationese, "One I know who has money galore...