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...duration record which still stands. Next year Harmon made another endurance record, which does not survive. It was in an airplane, first flight across Long Island Sound, from Mineola, L. I. to Stamford, Conn. Time: 2 hr. 3 min. At 64 Col. Harmon is dapper, bulky, heavy-jowled, horn-rimmed eye-glassed. He is currently much better known in Paris, where he has resided for 15 years, than in New York where he was an affluent realtor. He established Harmon-on-Hudson, the Manhattan suburb where outbound New York Central trains exchange electric for steam locomotives. He is a brother...
From the corner called Madagascar had come its former Governor, dapper M. Marcel Olivier, recently elected president of the French Line. Accustomed to think internationally, M. Olivier appealed in his speech for a "Washington Conference" to end the present costly race between Britain, France, Germany and Italy, each of which has been squandering untold millions to build the champion liner of the Atlantic. "In the interests of that internationalism for which the world is striving," cried M. Olivier, "the French merchant marine is anxious to collaborate in avoiding wasteful competition...
...shore time at the Downtown Club, which he helped to found, in his own Philadelphia Public Ledger building. Such small time as Publisher Curtis has for business, he gives to the Curtis-Martin newspapers (Ledgers, Inquirer, New York Evening Post) of which his stepdaughter's husband, dapper John Charles Martin is active chief...
Four men sat around a long conference table in a Manhattan publisher's office one day last week, registering varying degrees of pleasure. Large, dapper Publisher Richard Roy Smith beamed. Wide-eyed Critic George Jean Nathan puffed contentedly on a cigar. Ernest Boyd lolled crosslegged, grinning through his messianic beard. Hulking Theodore Dreiser looked less glum than usual. All had just learned that the first monthly issue of The American Spectator ("A Literary Newspaper") published by Mr. Smith and edited by the three writers (plus James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill) had sold out its entire edition...
...that building, president of the company as his father was before him, sits Thomas Bassett Macaulay. Life is peaceful and secure to Mr. Macaulay. He is an important figure in Montreal's closely-knit tycoonarchy. Sometimes he lunches at the St. James or Mount Royal Club with stocky, dapper Edward Wentworth Beatty of the C. P. R. or grave Sir Herbert Samuel Holt of the Royal Bank of Canada, both directors of his company. Summers he spends at Hudson Heights, raising fine Holsteins, experimenting with sturdy strains of corn...