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YOUNG MRS. GREELEY-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran...
...store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley at a confectioner...
...could be accommodated. Thus the shop became known as the Hole in the Wall, a title which many a small retailer has since appropriated. But many a hat came out of the hole and Hatter Knox soon moved to larger quarters. Among early Knox customers were Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennet, Thurlow Weed, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln...
Back in the Sober Seventies the typewriter tinker was a faithful reader of The Weekly Tribune founded by Editor Horace Greeley. Years after he left New York state and moved across the Atlantic to settle in Tinglev, Schleswig, the Danish mechanic remembered the great U. S. editor. When he begat a son in Tinglev, he named the man-child?today chief of the German delegation in Paris?Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. The onetime plowboy was. of course, General Electric's Owen D. Young, chief negotiant for the U. S. in Paris, chairman of the Second Dawes Committee...
...Times was started in 1851 by two young men who were excited by the report that Horace Greeley had made his New York Tribune earn $60,000 in one year. These founders-Henry Raymond and George Jones, both Tribune men, the one editorial and the other business-set the Times going with 100 shares of common stock, each of which they dared to believe might, sometime, be worth...