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...many people know this side of the man. He is perhaps most content while walking through a park-or climbing to the top of Old Rag, his favorite mountain in the Blue Ridge chain. Up there he may be alone-as he often is-but in a political and philosophical sense, he will be master of all he surveys. "I love these mountains," says Virginia's Senator Harry Flood Byrd. "I like to look out over the ridges and valleys and watch the changing shadows...
...face it," he shrugs, "we were rag merchants." In soft goods, his tough and able boys from Brooklyn simply did not have the savvy...
Dave, tell me. so what happened to the other girl? Dave, you know it will hurt the store. So why do you let it happen? . . . Irving, so why doesn't someone pick up this shirt? It looks like a schmuttie [rag]. And Irving, take more of this colored costume jewelry out of the drawers and put it on the cases. In two weeks it's not worth a nickel. So why don't you have it all out now? You don't want we should get stuck with it, do you. Irving?" Initial Offer...
...worn rag on a shoestring...
...nine-room apartment on Park Avenue is filled with items and ideas that could furnish a museum twice its size. He designed his own V'Soske area rug, has mixed Louis XV and XVI, 17th century English, :8th century Genoese and Venetian, Chinese tea paper, Portuguese rag rug. In Pahlmann's favorite manner, one small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes. The library has a door, concealed by bookshelves, that leads directly into this bedroom. The master bedroom, whose ceiling is overlaid with the Chinese tea paper, has a bedspread made from...