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...reorganization plans, bondholders given the properties. Last week Pennroad Corp., which wrote its security holdings down by $87,959,517 in 1938, began to shovel some of its charred chestnuts into the fire, revealed that it had sold 152,119 of its original 402,119 shares of Seaboard Air Line (in receivership). The shares, which had cost an average of $11, had been marked down on the books to 62?, were sold for 25? each...
...Miami Beach and the rest of resort Florida was in full hothouse bloom, all figures indicating the biggest, giddiest season since Depression. Train and plane reservations were being booked two to four weeks in advance; 100% bet ter business over Christmas than in 1938 was reported by Seaboard Air Line Rail way; bus travel was up at least 25%; $3,000,000 more real estate had been sold in 1939 than in 1938 in Miami Beach, where sites were priced at from $800 to $1,000 a front foot; lots on Lincoln Road (Miami Beach's swank shopping street...
There are only 32 registered packs of beagles in the U. S. (all but one of them on the eastern seaboard). Each has its own color and insignia, its Master of Beagles (M.B.) and its whips (whippers-in who are permitted to wear green coats in the field). Some packs are privately owned, like Mrs. William du Pont Jr.'s Foxcatcher Beagles (a misnomer,* because a beagle could never catch a fox). Others are subscription packs, like the Treweryn Beagles of Berwyn, Pa. and the Buckram Beagles of Brookville, Long Island, which anyone with sturdy legs and a presentable...
...night coffee pots and diners, cabbies dozing on the late-trick hack lines, night watchmen, charwomen, belated motorists, bakers, lighthouse keepers, lobster-trick pressmen, the boys in the bars and all the other sun dodgers standing the great night watch in Manhattan and all along the eastern seaboard have one companion that never goes to sleep on them. That cheerful stayer-up is WNEW's Milkman's Matinee, a 2-to-7 a. m. program of requested recordings, small-fry commercials and chummy gab conducted six mornings a week by a young announcer with a haberdasher...
Corn-fed young Lochinvar of Midwest American writing in 1890 was Hamlin Garland. With sturdy grass-root realism his A Son of the Middle Border (1917) echoed the dissatisfaction of Populist farmers with Eastern banks and business, again surprised seaboard intellectuals into noting that there were literate settlements beyond Manhattan. But Populism was already dead and Garland was left like last year's scarecrow among the corn shocks. With the passing of the middle border he sought a substitute in the borderland of the spirits and its terrestrial outpost in Southern California. From there he still issues books...