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Mann, Spengler and Stresemann. The son of the House of Mann stubbed his toe against life when his father died. The family business had to be sold at a loss in 1890. He moved with his mother to Munich, where she insisted that he must work at something. He sold fire insurance, writing novels by stealth until fame came. Like his great contemporary in philosophy, Oswald Spengler, his genius was fired most completely by contact with Mediterranean culture, and he repaid Italy with Der Tod in Vene dig (Death in Venice...
...Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed at even lower prices later in the slump week. At the time the Holy See gave no sign, unless an article in the Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano could be called such. In an article flaying "Market Vampires...
...Consolidated Commodore: span 100 ft., length 62 ft., 2 motors, 1,050 h. p. Biggest U. S. land plane is Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker's F-32, span 99 ft., length 70 ft., 4 motors, 2,100 h. p. These have just been tried out and sold for South American passenger service...
...Last week the I. C. C. authorized the reopening of the 17½-mile Hill City Railway. Armour and Co. recently sold it to the citizens of Hill City, Minn., for a bargain price...
...Associated Press, for a generation grave, factual and colorless under its late great Founder President Melville Elijah Stone; since 1925 jazzed and "rejuvenated" under General Manager Kent Cooper. But last week oldtimers got one more startle. An Associated Press despatch from Evanston, 111., reported that a blonde girl had sold to housewives some "lily bulbs" which proved, after a week in water, to be stones. Peculiarities of the report were its complete omission of names and its precious form. It was written in something approximating rhymed couplets. The first stanza-paragraph rhymed "sundry" with "money." The third did better, rhyming...