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...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at $298!, putting the $2,986.25 in a savings bank. Recently he bought back his ten Atchison for $350. With the additional money he bought ten shares in each of 85 well-known companies, such as Baltimore & Ohio, Erie, Wabash, Anaconda Copper, Baldwin Locomotive, United Cigar, Kreuger & Toll, Curtiss-Wright, Republic Steel. He still had left $8.75 to buy a haircut, a shave, a pair of shoes before taking the accumulated savings bank interest of about $450 to buy an automobile. If he had bought the 850 shares when he sold his Atchison in 1929, they...
Newsmen soon found further points of Grosz normality. Said he: "American beer is quite nice, light, absolutely good. but not to compare with German beer." He has hobbies: carpentry, collecting etchings (Rowlandson and Daumier). He smokes a pipe, rarely a cigar. He is married, has two boys, aged 7 and 3, both quite normal...
...Angeles the bone of the contention was doing a nightly turn at the Sebastian Cotton Club. It was a typical Louis Armstrong act, like the one he has given in New Orleans, his hometown, where there is a special cigar named for him; in Philadelphia, where a musician in the audience once accused him of playing on a trick trumpet, enraging him so that he smashed it, sent out for a new one before he would go on with the show; in Manhattan where he once took a phial from his vestpocket, drank the contents (said to be dope) with...
...little grey banking house John Pierpont Morgan the Elder let a black cigar droop from his lips. Through the door peered the late Edward Dean Adams, little known to Wall Streeters but a tower of strength to bankers. "Hello, Adams," muttered Mr. Morgan, "It's still going...
Died. Morris Gershwin, 62, father of Composer George and Lyric Writer Ira Gershwin, at various times a designer of women's shoes, bookmaker, proprietor of cigar stores, billiard parlors, Turkish baths, restaurants; after long illness; in New York...