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Douglas Ludlow Elliman, potent Manhattan realtor, through whom (Douglas L. Elliman & Co.) or his competitor-brother (Lawrence B. Elliman of Pease & Elliman Inc.) many a smart Manhattanite obtains his abode, returned from a European yachting trip, reported on the foreign housing situation. His points: in London the trend is toward private homes; apartments ("flats") are "a drug on the ma-ket." In Paris, Athens, Belgrade, Milan and many another continental city, the opposite is true. The co-operative apartment idea has "taken" in Paris...
...Bula Benton Edmondson Croker,* second wife and widow of Tammany Chief Richard Croker, lost the famed Croker-McDonald suit involving the sale of 10,000 feet of Palm Beach ocean frontage. Mrs. Croker had sought to break a nine-year-old option that gave J. B. McDonald, Palm Beach realtor, the privilege of buying for $150 per foot the land now valued at over $700. To Mrs. Croker the difference will be $5,000,000, besides large attorney fees...
...Lefcourt, in some quarters considered Most Potent Realtor, came from Russia. His first U. S. job was blacking boots. His most recent achievement was the opening of his own bank, the Lefcourt Normandie National Bank. He has specialized in building industrial centres...
Russia supplied another outstanding realtor in Irwin S. Chanin, better half of Chanin Bros., though Henry I. Chanin is also able, active. Mr. Chanin was born in the U. S. of Russian parents who, however, took him back to Russia, then brought him back again, this time no more to roam. His father was a painter-plasterer in Brooklyn. Irwin also painted, plastered by day, went to Cooper Institute by night, won a prize for designing a bridge and got an engineering job in subway construction. During the War he helped build speedily erected laboratories for making poison...
...Brooklyn Realtor Joseph M. Gross suggested a real estate exchange to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce...