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...interest mortgage money, Walter and Modern Homes carefully, developed lines of credit that enabled them to do their own financing. An affable, smooth-talking Floridian who is a wealthy man at 40, Walter carefully built up his company until it now has 150 branch offices and is the second larg est homebuilder (after National Homes Corp.), with sales last year of $30 million and earnings of $1,800,000. Last week Walter took over as chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago's Celotex Corp. (a maker of building materials that could go into his homes), which he controls...
...catch the electronics boom, moved to 128. In 1929 Farrington devised the department stores' Charga-Plate, which gave it entry to two of the 1950s' hottest business areas-credit cards and automatic accounting systems. Four years ago Farrington moved into one of the highway's larg-« est plants (354,000 sq. ft.), there prints credit cards (for Hilton, 35 oil companies, all the airlines), manufactures printed circuits. It also produces a remarkable machine: an electronic scanner that reads, then transmits the information it has read onto cards or tapes that can be used by IBM machines...
There, last week, by simple notification to the Government, moved four of Holland's largest banks (Javasche Bank. Neder-landsche Handel Mij., Nederlandsche In-dische Escompto Mij. and Nederlandsch Indische Handelsbank). There also have moved the headquarters of the two larg est steamship companies (Rotterdamsche Lloyd and Stoomvaart Nederland) in the Indies trade. In London, Manhattan and Batavia, operators of the Dutch fleet of 1,500 merchantmen have already set up joint offices and Dutch shipping is doing business as usual, except that Holland ports have been dropped from call, except that in war zones its ships join Allied...
...known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois found it by accompanying his heroes on their every exploit. The argument is put clearly by Mr. Larg: "Put all your men of action in a row. Describe them to yourself and to the godless public. Learn lessons from them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what use is hunting except to exercise the hound...
...specific word about the two books. Mr. Larg's short biographical sketch was first published in 1930 and is now reissued. It is at times extremely esoteric. He pictures Andre Maurois through his books, largely through his novels, which are not so well known in America. But it is understanding and sympathetic, appropriately so to Mr. Maurois; perhaps because it contains so many of his own words...