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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wild Bill" Wasserman started his business career with a $1,500,000 nest egg his father made manufacturing carpets. He has substantially enlarged it by managing two investment trusts, the Investment Corp. of Philadelphia and the Delaware Fund, Inc., and by using his sharp eyes in a number of ways. In 1931, for example, he took a look at Russia's bumper wheat crop, concluded that it would depress the world market, and took a short position in sterling that netted...
James P. Derham was trained by his father to head the company, Enos J. to design bodies and Walter to tend to the shop. They do three or four big jobs a month, keep some 30 men busy in their stone and red-brick plant on Lancaster Pike. Most of their orders come from the automobile manufacturers, who get queer specifications from great and eccentric customers. At present the Derhams are designing a big grey limousine for Joseph Stalin, a duplicate in black for President Vincent of Haiti, a town car for Mrs. Henry B. du Pont and 15 open...
Near Princeton, N. J., an automobile driven by Peace J. Wham, a Father Divine disciple, crashed into a car jampacked with nine undergraduates, killed Princeton Senior Joseph Gifford...
Readers' first question about They Still Say No will be: How does it compare with the early novels of Sinclair Lewis (the author's father)? Sinclair Lewis' only child by his first wife, Wells Lewis, 21, a senior at Harvard, is a slender, sandy-haired, better-looking but less vigorous, less radical edition of his father...
Adet, Anor and Meimei (16, 13 and 8) are the daughters of Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living), that hard-working and engaging Chinese exponent of the leisurely life. Says doll-like Meimei, who is spoiled and collects stamps: "Father told Adet and Anor to write some diary. Soon they began to write and it became very good, so Father told them that maybe it can be published." A Chinese equivalent of the Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats...