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Kenesaw Mountain Landis, William Harridge, Ford Frick are as familiar to baseball fans as the seventh-inning stretch...
When U. S. Steel's directors sit down to their monthly meeting at 71 Broadway -looked down on by the portraits of J. P. Morgan (Sr. and Jr.), Henry Clay Frick, Judge Gary, Myron C. Taylor, George F. Baker-no swarm of Manhattan newshawks waits outside the door. Their monthly meetings are devoted strictly to business, not to making publicity. The directors hear about broad company policies from their youthful, silver-haired chairman, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., keep up with production and sales operations by listening to tough-fibred, gregarious President Ben Fairless, learn about fiscal problems from their...
...panic, John D. called his loan, took over the property at a $29,000,000 profit. Meanwhile, in 1892, another U. S. steel pioneer was at work on the Mesabi-Henry W. Oliver, who joined up with Andrew Carnegie's right-hand man, Henry C. Frick-over the opposition of "Pioneering don't pay" Carnegie, who predicted from a Sussex retreat that "this ore venture . . . will result in more trouble and less profit than 'almost any other branch of our business." In 1896 Frick and Oliver went to see Rockefeller, leased his vast mines for a royalty...
...Frick & Frack do not depend on costumes, grimaces or falls to get their laughs. With the pantomime of Charlie Chaplin and the rubber legs of Leon Errol, they take the elements of figure skating, distort them into crazy positions to create some of the most astonishing feats ever performed on skates. Frick's specialty: a cantilever Spread Eagle in which his body, bent backward from the knees, is almost horizontal with the ice. Frack's specialty: a rocking-chair Spread Eagle (gliding in circles in a sitting position...
...Says Frick, the stolid one: "People think our skating is eccentric. It is not so. Any figure skater should be able to do a serious Spread Eagle asleep. It becomes comedy when you do odd things with your body while the Spread Eagle is going on. We use our brains, nerve-control and concentration." Says Frack, the fractious one: "What we like most outside of skating is to go to a vaudeville show so we can laugh once in a while...