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Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman, donor of the $25 000 prize for the first non-stop flight between Paris and New York, offered a $5,000 reward to the aviator who should discover either Captain Nungesser or Captain Coli or traces of their White Bird. Soon followed the announcement by Rodman Wanamaker, Manhattan-Philadelphia department store owner, of a $25,000 reward to anyone who should find the two Frenchmen, dead or alive...
...Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (department stores...
...scuffling folk intent on rummaging through counters of merchandise in search of bargains. One night last week a greater crowd than ever before crammed its way into this pillared space, now swept of every vestige of merchandise. They had come to hear a concert, attend a reception given by Rodman Wanamaker in honor of Thaddeus Rich, concert master of the Philadelphia Orchestra. From the first grand chord of the organ prelude to the last lingering vibration of Soloist Rich's violin the audience were silent, as 15,000 disembodied spirits straining for the trumpet call of the angels. They...
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Railroad men have a way of being self-made. Lawrence Downs is thoroughly a part of this tradition. After graduating from Purdue he went to work as a rodman for the I. C., rose steadily through the engineering department. A heavy man, mentally and physically, his particular talent is a blunt, wholehearted affability which endears him to all members of a profession in which this gift is the norm of social intercourse. "Handling men," he has said, "is largely a matter of getting them to like you." Charles Markham has said the same thing; Stuyvesant Fish said...