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Tucked off in an inconspicuous corner of many newspapers is a little section called "Ten Years Ago Today," summarizing 24 hours of news of a decade ago and making them sound more remote than the wars of the Medes and the Persians. Because London newspapers are older than most, their...
Delivered at $2 a copy last week was FORTUNE's New York City number, for which 170,000 copies in addition to the regular run of 140,000 had been ordered in advance. In its 248 pages, 23 articles, 179 illustrations were innumerable facts about the world's...
So the Newark Museum was chartered not for awesome Art alone but also for the exhibition of works of science, history and technology. Newark was an industrial city and a satellite of Manhattan; its upper class even then was beginning to find homes in the country and entertainment in the...
Otto Kahn died in 1934. His wife & children, though affluent, found the carrying charges of his pleasure dome too much for them. But they could find no latter-day tycoon rich enough to take it over. Last week the Kahn heirs announced they had sold the place for an undisclosed...
Los Angeles was not yet mad enough at Hitler to want to fight him abroad, but anger was rising. The big, sprawling metropolis ("seven suburbs in search of a city") seemed not really concerned about the war threat. Europe is a long way from Los Angeles.