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STRACHEY (Lytton) Elisabeth and Essex. Illustrated. Mint...
STRACHEY (Lytton) Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays...
...Stores Home. The Lyttons, father & son, were back in control of Chicago's four Hub Stores last week. Henry Charles Lytton, now 86, started the first store 46 years ago with $12.700 capital. He spent $2,500 for fixings, $3.500 for advertising. In March 1929, when the Hub Stores were reported doing a $10,000,000-a-year business they were sold to Fashion Park Associates. Inc., for stock then worth $7,000,000, now worth i/'iooth as much at market prices. How much it cost the Lyttons to buy back their stores was not disclosed...
...Father Lytton sat behind his desk last week and, as "last survivor of the old State Street merchants.'' received congratulations and spoke of new policies. But he will soon leave for his winter home near Monte Carlo and the actual management will be handled by his unusual son George Lytton, president...
...George Lytton is famed in Chicago for having founded the 44-piece Business Men's Symphony Orchestra which gives about six concerts a year. He plays the bass viol and owns 28, keeping two handy in his office. But boxing, not music, is his real hobby. Now a sparse man of 58, his muscles are as tough as they were when 40 years ago he started to work for his father and installed a gymnasium next to 'his office. For some years he was considered amateur heavyweight champion and boxed with such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons...