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...sets, hitherto closely and privately owned. Philco's spectacular career had whetted Wall Street appetites for years. Once a small maker of storage batteries, Philco dived boldly into the turbulent radio set business in 1928, went $7,000,000 into debt, emerged at the top of the manufacturing heap, ahead of RCA (on whose patents Philco depended). Hit by strikes in 1937 and 1938, it came back last year, for the year ended last March had a $2,359,767 net. Until last week Philco stock was owned by fewer than 100 people, most of them Philco directors, officers...
...spot false teeth at a ten-yard glance is Boston Dentist Simon Myerson, brother of famed Harvard Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson. Every time gentle, absent-minded Dr. Myerson sees a mouthful of neat, dead-white false teeth, he shudders. Five years ago, Dr. Myerson was struck all of a heap. He called in his eldest son, Martin, a ceramist, and got busy...
...identical right of way prettified with a million dollars' worth of grass and tree. ..." He has a quiet eye for the significantly grotesque: "A gymnasium which looks like a cathedral backs up in New Haven to a dark yard where boys play ball beside a huge garbage heap where first base ought...
Today the Varsity golf team is perched at the top of the heap in the Northern half of the Eastern Intercollegiate circuit, but last weekend's victories over Brown and Dartmouth were only dress rehearsals for the crucial tests on this week's golfing calendar. Powerful Williams rolls into town tomorrow afternoon to do battle with the Hoddermen on Belmont, while Holy Cross and Yale follow in rapid succession on Saturday. The Crusaders should be a rather soft touch, but the Elis will be out for blood, anxious to avenge two straight lickings at the hands of Harvard...
...cocktails, developed a working method as scholarly as a Ph.D.'s. Her letters were laid out a week in advance, researched by herself and an informal staff of friends, checked thoroughly, painfully polished in draft after draft. Among her best friends were (and are) Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of the once-famed Little Review in Greenwich Village. Last Christmas she spent with her mother and her sister, Poet Hildegarde Planner, at Altadena, Calif. Last week she stopped in Manhattan on her way back to Paris...