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...storekeeper: "One dollar and sixty-five cents-and three cents for the sales tax that that goddam Governor Murray put on the poor man's grub." When indignant citizens stormed Little Rock demanding a special session of the Legislature to repeal Arkansas' new 2% sales tax, Governor Junius Marion Futrell fled to Hot Springs, hopped into a steam bath, cried: "It's cooler in this box than it was at the Capitol...
...able portraits up on the walls of Manhattan's Grand Central Fifth Avenue Galleries. Critics called the men virile and first-rate, the women decorative, did not mention the portraits of Lavalle's Daughter Alice, 14, and Son John, 10. Socialite friends. Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt and Mrs. Junius Morgan, poured tea for the reception, while his wife visited her Cincinnati kin. Next night John Lavalle slept soundly in his bed in Manhattan's Harvard Club and the critics' calm little notices of his first show in years were already in print for the Sunday supplements, when...
...shiny, black limousines, Manhattan's top-notch socialites rolled up to a musty midtown mansion, hurried past a pair of guards and through a big stone doorway. Inside, J. Pierpont Morgan was giving a dance for his eldest granddaughter, Junius Spencer Morgan's debutante daughter Louise. For every young friend of Louise, Grandfather Morgan had invited four of his own associates. All over the house prowled detectives to keep out "crashers" and newshawks. In the library Physick, the Morgan Butler, presided proudly over the first big entertainment since Mrs. Morgan died nine years before. At 9:30 Host...
...alight at Hearn's for a camel's hair shawl at $10,000 or laces at $1,000 a yd. For 105 years the store was managed by the Hearn family whose youngest executive, Donald Hearn Cowl, kept a yacht as late as 1931 and raced every Saturday with Junius Morgan. But in 1932 Hearn's, crippled by Depression, long eclipsed in fashion by younger stores, was turned over to a board of trustees. They were glad of a chance to sell the store lock, stock & barrel to two Jews named Maurice Levin and Jacob M. Kaplan, who promptly...
...asked to join. No grind, he worked hard but quickly, spent most of his hours in the laboratory. But he found time to help edit the Crimson, dance with the "Baby Brats" at famed Brattle Hall. He did not seek popularity and few of his classmates, including Junius Spencer Morgan, Sumner Welles, Nicholas Roosevelt, Gilbert Seldes, noticed the shy, towheaded, unprepossessing youngster from Dorchester. Those who did became his fast friends, won by a quick, appealing smile, a quiet humor and good sense...