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...insurance salesman James Roosevelt was an instant success. As son of the then Governor of New York and likeliest future President of the U. S., he had many valuable contacts. Business boomed so fast that James Roosevelt forsook the law school after one year to spend all his time acquiring financial independence...
...Island, Hawaii, was very beautiful. Volcanoes had scattered lava over two-thirds of the island so that one could not see the land at all. On the other third cattle browsed and sugarcane grew--these on the Parker ranch, owned by a young man who forsook farming for Hollywood, where the producers own everything including their own language and where Ralph Forbes cannot pronounce "promiscuously...
...Mellon's Millions) offered The Guggenheims, a well-documented unraveling of the complex history of the Guggenheim mining fortune that made U. S. novelists' omission seem even more remarkable. Like the Buddenbrooks and Forsytes, the Guggenheim family began with sober business men, many of whose latest descendants forsook business for the arts, involved complicated family relationships, fierce squabbles. But unlike their counterparts in European fiction, the Guggenheims pictured by Harvey O'Connor have operated on a scale calculated to dazzle the most imaginative novelists...
...mining engineer, was assigned to manage it. He was immediately struck by the ugliness of its tombstones, by the fact that most cemeteries are "unsightly stoneyards, full of inartistic symbols and depressing customs." Mr. Eaton placed a ban on stones, substituting bronze markers laid flush with the grass. He forsook the word "cemetery" for more euphonious Memorial Park. Today under his chairmanship it has expanded to 200 acres, contains in one form or another the dust of some 55,000 humans, with room for about 150,000 more, and is divided into sections with names like Babyland, Vale of Memory...
...even eligible to operate a motor vehicle at night in New York State, where full driving privileges begin at 18. One is Mitzi Green, a stripling advertised as 16 who used to be a child star in the films, progressed to a juvenile radio program which she surprisingly forsook this winter to entertain at a Manhattan night club called Versailles, a house where innocence is as rare as courtesy. There Miss Green did impersonations, the most painful of which-a re-enactment of Luise Rainer's big sob scene in The Great Ziegfeld-she repeats in Babes In Arms...