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...Durant, Who Won and Lost Fortunes...
...DURANT MOPS OWN FLOOR...
Last week even readers with no great sentiment for Wall Street's old bulls felt the poignancy of these headlines. In 1886, when Henry Ford was sawing wood on his father's farm, William Crapo Durant was introducing mass production to the buggy business. What passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which...
...took 24 hours to set the Durant dish-washing tale straight. Though declaring himself bankrupt last February, Automan Durant is no down-&-outer, still maintains offices on Park Avenue, weekends on a $100,000 estate at Deal, N. J. President of Deal Gables Corp. (real estate), he owns a one-story building in North Asbury, which was built as a salesroom for Durant cars ten years ago. Concessionaires opened a food market there last December, did so badly that one by one they had to close up. Last month Landlord Durant took the place in hand, later announced the opening...
...table filed into the Hall, taking their seats on a raised dais. Among those present were Deans Hanford and Leighton, Roger B. Merriman '96, Master of Eliot House, Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House, Elliott C. Cutler '09, ex-president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University...