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...Streeters, handsome, bushy-haired Matt Brush symbolized the bygone Terrific Twenties. A born speculator, Brush went east from Kansas to make a fortune. His financial strategy first made him director of the dilapidated Boston "L"; some 50 other companies by 1929. During World War I he managed the great Hog Island Shipyard. A confirmed bachelor until 56, he then married his 33-year-old secretary. His hobby: collecting 2,000 model elephants, some as big as dogs, others as small as doodlebugs...
There, too, the farm political scene was more animated than anywhere in the U. S. Governor Sam Jones at the Chicago convention snorted: "I'm 1,000% against Wallace." (Six years ago Henry Wallace said, "Cotton is an efficient industry and so is hog raising. Sugar is an inefficient industry. ... I do not believe Louisiana sugar . . . should be put out of business all at once. That would be hard on human rights. . . ." Four years ago the sugar parish of Assumption voted for Landon.) Scholarly, weather-beaten Planter David Washington Pipes, venerated in the sugar country because he grew...
...Bronislaw Malinowski at Yale. Last fortnight famed Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, who was to direct Finland's reconstruction, changed his mind, decided to stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen) and his equally eminent wife, Dr. Enid Charles, Britain's No. 1 population expert. A semi-refugee, Lancelot Hogben was caught on a lecture tour in Norway by the German invasion, escaped through Russia to the U. S., last week...
...playground superintendents the Windsors are well experienced, will find the routine of Nassau reassuringly similar to that of the Riviera. To the swank Jungle Club go top-flight visiting Nassau socialites to dine, to the equally swank Bahamian Club for dancing or gambling. On nearby Hog Island are the tennis courts and swimming pools of the exclusive Porcupine Club. Below green-shuttered Government House are the warm waters of Nassau harbor, crowded with sleek yachts and fishing launches. Two hours flight away is the Florida coast and its U.S. winter resorts. The cartoonists of the U. S. press were quick...
Last week one big obstacle to new plant was detected and removed. The obstacle: the long memories of manufacturers and investors, reluctant to put money into new plant that may be as useless five or six years hence as the Hog Island Shipyard was in 1923. The U. S. Treasury took the rap for Hog Island. Why should the stockholders of Packard Motor Car Co., for example, take the rap for $30,000,000 of new equipment which, after building enough Rolls-Royce plane engines to beat Hitler, might find its market destroyed by peace...