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...Elected a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Chairman Paul D. Cravath promptly put Director Sarnoff on the executive committee to ponder the Met's problems along with Otto Kahn, Myron Charles Taylor and Mrs. August Belmont...
...Myron and Ora Weagle, sons of a small-town hotelkeeper in Connecticut, are as different as brothers can be. Myron is a conscientious worker whereas Ora fancies himself as a poet. When they leave home, Myron is content to get an even more menial job at another hotel, but Ora drifts to Manhattan, his idea of Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit...
Meantime poor but honest Myron has discovered his career (hotelkeeping) and his ambition (to build and run the Perfect Inn). Through long and unamusing years he works his way up through every job in every kind of hotel until he is making good pay as an expert with a reputation. Then he sinks everything into his Perfect Inn, only to face failure when a murder and suicide on the gala opening night give the place a noisome name. Bloody but unbowed, Myron goes back to an underling's job. The story ends with his running a country hotel...
...down in his Pittsburgh home to read (for the lost time, he said) that sentimental masterpiece, David Copperfield. Would the Attorney General indict him? The steel business is currently improving, has little grudge against the Government. President Roosevelt has told friends: "I've gotten to like that fellow Myron Taylor [U. S. Steel] since I've seen so much of him." Only last week Donald B. Gillies (Corrigan-McKinney Steel) told the American Mining Congress that his industry "whole-heartedly approves the President's Recovery program." Steelman Weir was himself one of the first to fall...
...year bracket, will soon retire, that young Mr. Stettinius will within a reasonably short time become in fact Steel's "Mr. Statistics." Even before then he will probably become one of Steel's 15 directors along with J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont, Myron C. Taylor, James A. Farrell, George F. Baker, Walter S. Gifford and Sewell Avery. Today Little Stet is only 33. but as be fits a man who has already had a full career, he is practically white-haired. In 1926 he married Virginia Wallace, a Vir ginia girl. They have three children: Edward...