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When the velvet Poetess Elinor Wylie proposed this alternative to the ivory tower, she was not thinking of the millions who scuttle like rats and whiz like rocketing atoms through the subways of the world's great cities. The oldest of these subways are the dismalest: Boston's system, built in 1897, and Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit (1904) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (1913). Those most conducive to human sanity are the clean, well-lighted neatly tubular "undergrounds" of London and Buenos Aires. Proudest and most ornate is the three-year-old Moscow Metro...
Bankers at first mistrusted Jefty because of his inexperience and his use of sound trucks to advertise real estate frozen in the banks he had to liquidate. By last week, however, the American Banker felt justified in remarking: "Without pyrotechnics or disruptions of established methods in the oldest banking agency of the Government, he stimulated loyalty, recognized career men and from coast to coast glorified his office to bankers and public...
...pawnbroking is a $600,000,000 a year business. Reputedly the oldest and most celebrated U. S. pawnshop is that of William Simpson, Inc., which was founded in Manhattan by a family which had been pawnbroking in England for five generations. One William Simpson or another has lent money to Steve Brodie, Boss Tweed, Commodore Vanderbilt and Tony Pastor. John L. Sullivan used to hock his diamond-studded championship belt at Simpson's for $400. Evalyn Walsh McLean pawned her Hope Diamond there to get the $100,000 Gaston Means swindled from her as ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh...
Forty-two undergraduates with Group rating in the rank list during the past academic year have been awarded Detur Prize books, the oldest scholastic prize on the University, the Dean's office announced today...
...editors of the "Oldest College Daily,"' and the editors of every other college publication, our own included, should ask themselves if this code still obtains, if American college journalism still serves a useful function; and still warrants its perpetuation...