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Sold at auction were the office property and personal belongings of Sing Sing Convict No. 94,835 (ex-Broker Richard Whitney). Items: a $50 custom-made office wastebasket, $2; an L. C. Smith typewriter, $27.50 (sold to the secretary who once used it); pearl studs, $100; office carpet, $46. Total proceeds...
...Hoyne with those who find them so. Hoyne's "things" are not a stack of private slants on life, but the common denominators of American living, about which he knows plenty. A fourth-generation Chicagoan, Hoyne has followed the ropes as sports editor, financial editor, city editor, showman, broker, lawyer, Kentucky colonel. On Pilgrimage, his crudely but aptly illustrated book of verses, is as amateurish in its format and some of its contents as a home-made dog house. Within it lives a spirit that has dignified the human race since Aesop and before: the spirit that says...
During his teens. Painter Karson started a muralitis epidemic in Chicago's financial district. A broker who specialized in utilities commissioned a mural for his customers' room, and Nat Karson gave him one symbolizing power, with a big muscle-bound brute in the middle. Other brokers quickly followed suit. Says Nat Karson: "The more muscles and machinery I painted, the better they liked it. ... When the crash came, they got demoralized and I got demuralized...
Divorced. Madeleine Carroll Astley, 33, beauteous British cinemactress; from Philip Astley, British Army captain and real-estate broker; in London...
...Spoiled Children has for heroine a Paris Stock Exchange broker's daughter, Agnes Boussardel, who ups and goes to the University of California. There she loves a 200% American with Indian blood, leads the fast, far-weekending, Sierra-smitten life of the Golden West. Back in France she finds her family stuffy, marries her cousin, learns that her family when pressed can raise considerable hell...