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Miss Marjorie Durant, daughter of wealthy automobile builder William Crapo Durant, was severely shaken when her airplane crashed through the fence of an airport at Santa Barbara, Calif. With her was a pilot and a Dr. N. H. Brish, physician to rich Stanley McCormick at the great estate where Mr. McCormick is held virtual prisoner as an incompetent...
...fifty-six pages of Ralph Barton Perry's little book, "A Defence of Philosophy", are very good reading and probably of far greater potential value to the layman than the several hundred that make up Mr. Durant's best-seller on the story of philosophy. Certainly, the essay leaves the reader with a respect for "those qualities of mind that prompt other men to plunge into the deep waters and roam the trackless forests of the great intellectual adventure...
...were tales that it will again attempt to buy Radio Corp.'s communication business. Auburn leaped from $101 through $210 and bulls said they heard that General Motors had agreed to use Auburn's free-wheeling patents. Once again the names of Mike Meehan and William Crapo Durant were heard where speculators gathered...
...Motormakers last week had another thing to discuss. It was a new Durant line of sedans with a "Pullman attachment" as standard equipment. Owners of these new Durants will not have to get out of their cars when they wish to stretch themselves out full length. At the press of a little lever, the back of the front seat gives way, a "reclining couch" comes into being. Durant advertisements pointed out the many uses of this "roadside resting or sleeping room." It "makes traveling with children delightful," enables businessmen to "keep going as long and as far as they like...
Sharp selling brought Richfield Oil common stock to a new low of $2¼ last week. Brokers recalled its happier days when a pool, said to have been the first operated by William Crapo Durant's son R. ("Cliff"), sent it up to 54⅛ in 1928. Receiver McDuffie stopped reports that he would resign from Pacific Western, said eventually Richfield's creditors will be paid in full...