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Obviously a notable trunk improvement, the wardrobe trunk was well received; soon other companies were making trunks of the wardrobe type. For a time, Innovation, the pioneer, remained the leader. Eventually, however, Oshkosh, Hartmann and other trunk companies became more potent in the field. Finally, in 1924, Innovation had a renovation. Inventor Bonsall turned over the direction of the company to its present head, Anthony J. Trentacoste, who has been an Innovation trunk-man for 22 years and is responsible for the present expansion policy. Mr. Bonsall is now Director of International Interests of the Dewatered Products Combination, a chemical...
...Iron Gustave" Hartmann, cabby, who drove his ancient horse and cab on a "goodwill" jaunt to Paris (TIME,, June 18) returned to Berlin last week, lolling in a taxicab presented to him by Opel Motor Co. Old friends of horsey days, vexed, were restrained by police from mobbing...
Other old men have performed stunts to sell postcards. But here and there an old man or a young is destined to seem to everyone especially nice. By the time he reached Paris, last week, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann seemed as nice as "Trader Horn," with just a dash of Lindbergh...
Joyously the Latin Quarter students, who make it a prankish point to always use fiacres instead of taxis, assembled 39 of their favorite and seediest cab drivers at the Porte de Pantin, to greet jovial Red Beard Hartmann when he drove in last week. For the rest, Tout Paris is ever ready to join in good-humored shouts at a spectacle so nice as a parade of 40 old men and 40 old nags up the Champs Elysees and on to the Eiffel Tower...
Only Germans took the affair to heart. Cabby Hartmann was royally banqueted at the German Embassy in Paris. In Berlin the Tagliche-Rundschau, organ of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Gustav Streseman, famed German Foreign Minister, declared: "The common people of France no longer feel that animosity toward Germans so long and artificially promoted by [French] politicians and the press." Observers who know the tenacious French mentality in regions which have been devastated by tramping Teutons were unimpressed. But enough postcards have been sold (50,000) and enough more will be sold to enable Cabby Hartmann to retire...