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...shows that on Nov. 11, 1921 playing with Dewitt Clinton Jones, Charles Wreaks and Randolph Harrison on the Suburban Club links in Elizabeth, N. J. I made a hole in one. It was my 23,990th hole in match play. Does anyone else know how many holes they had played before having this stroke of luck? That is what it is! Out of the millions of players very few expert amateurs or professionals have had it, proving that skill in the game has nothing to do with it. It also shows I have played 52 courses...
...GLENWOOD J. SHERRARD President Parker House Boston, Mass...
...J. David Stern's New York Post, which gave itself periodic shots in the arm until George Backer bought it and took it out of the narcotic ward last week, began selling cheap records as a promotion stunt last winter. The Post's Business Manager Jacob Omansky, ardent music-bibber, invented the scheme: the paper commissioned RCA Victor to make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because...
During his lifetime Patent Attorney John D. Morgan piled up a fortune of between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. Last week, in Elizabeth, N. J., his last will and testament was filed. His posthumous hedge against waste: neither of his daughters (heirs after the death of their mother) is to receive her share until she has passed a formal examination convincing the trustees she really knows and understands "the principles of sound investment...
...check made out for "one tusan dollars.'' The check was good. A kindly man, he refuses to install bookkeeping machines in his offices, because they take away jobs. A thrifty man, he does not hesitate to take his family on vacations to Miami, Atlantic City, Lakewood, N. J. According to another Salop legend, when his first child was born, 16 years ago, Salop put her on his payroll at $75 a week; likewise the second daughter, born four years later. (His older daughter, he once remarked, was not very smart in school. "But she knows what stocks...