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Last week Joseph Washington Frazer reached the motor magnates' Valhalla. He had been elected board chairman of Graham-Paige Motors Corp.; now Joe Frazer could make and sell his own automobiles. In a happy hubbub, almost like old times, he watched telegrams coming in from dealers all over the country, asking for postwar franchises...
...week's end, on his way to Newport, the usually genial Joe Frazer was not especially happy. He did not mind being the only dollar-a-year executive in the motor industry; his week-old position gives him other compensation of the incentive type...
...Frazer's unhappiness came from a swirl of rumors that spread from Detroit: he was putting Graham-Paige and other companies together in a new combine to balk Ford; the Fisher brothers were in; the Fisher brothers were out; Atlas Corp. was buying Graham-Paige heavily in the open market...
...stop the rumors and quiet SEC, Graham-Paige hurried out with a statement full of intimate business details. Against the background of rumors, the statement made Joe Frazer, a 210-pounder, feel like a man undressing in public...
...unborn. Rome's Father Aeneas, at the Sibyl's bidding, plucked a branch from a tree in the Sacred Grove before he essayed his perilous journey into the world of the dead. In time Nemi's Sacred Grove withered, ultimately to be immortalized in Sir James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators might particularly have admired was Rome's monstrous Emperor Caligula...