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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vulcan's Forge, a horse recently sold by Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney for $80,000, got it all back in one lump for his new owner, I. J. Collins of Lancaster, Ohio, by winning the world's richest race-the Santa Anita Handicap (value to the winner...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Clay Williams, 64, longtime chairman of the board of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), successor to General Hugh S. Johnson as boss of NRA; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem...
Life With Two Scotches. Last week, J. P. Marquand could look back on 27 years of unbroken writing success. In all those years he has finished every book and story he ever started, has sold everything he has written except one short story ("It was supposed to be funny and wasn't"). The Satevepost alone has paid him something like half a million dollars for the no "slicks" and serials of his that the Post has published over a period of nearly 20 years...
Then came World War I. J. P. Marquand saw action, rose to the rank of captain, but (though he later recalled it effectively in So Little Time) the war roused in him no Hemingway impulses to write about it. "Of course I got frightened to death on a number of occasions and I saw a lot of people get killed, but I don't think it did very much...
Indecent Exposure. Instead, Marquand came back from the war "full of beans and determined to make one billion dollars." He compromised for a $50-a-week job on the New York Tribune Sunday section, then shifted to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency as a copywriter (after Harvardman Robert Benchley, '12, tipped him off that a job was open...