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Tales of Manhattan first occurred to the mind of a cultivated European named Samuel Spiegel, who, in a burst of Americanism, recently changed his business name to S. P. Eagle. Friends still call him Sam. Three years ago, when he first thought up the film, S. P. Eagle had no business. He had nothing more than the bare idea for the picture. And he was close to starving. The apocryphal story has it that Mr. Eagle thereupon invited Hollywood's most expensive authors to dinner at Dave Chasen's swank restaurant, ordered the best that Mr. Chasen...
Last week in Manhattan, quiet, greying, sharp-faced Dr. Walter William Marseille, former Berlin psychologist, described graphology's partial emergence from the doghouse to do a routine job of work: rating customer reliability for Spiegel's, Chicago mail-order house, which sells clothing, furniture and household goods to more than two million installment accounts...
...opinion researcher, retained him to make a handwriting analysis of mail received by several U.S. Senators during the debate on the conscription bill. His educational rating of the letter-writers (later checked by interviewers) attracted the attention of FORTUNE'S Elmo Roper, who is also a director of Spiegel's. At Roper's suggestion, Spiegel's gave Marseille a trial: 20 handwritten order blanks from reliable customers, 20 from known delinquents. Looking solely for indications of honesty or dishonesty, he failed dismally. Next, he was given 200 specimens-100 of them good accounts...
...were almost unable to pay. Most of them squeezed through with short-term loans from local banks. But others borrowed in the open: Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (which had over $5,000,000 cash last August) six weeks ago borrowed $5,000,000; mail-order house Spiegel, Inc. last year doubled its inventories, jumped notes payable 65% to $16,000,000. Cash-short, many storekeepers are also warehouse-short. Thus Macy's last week leased a five-story warehouse; other storekeepers stuffed carloads of goods into already crowded warehouses...
Although Mare and his father came to the United States after the pogrom, Mrs. Spiegel remained in Warsaw to settle their financial affairs. She was caught in the war, and Marc believes that being a doctor, she was pressed into service during the six day siege of the Polish capital...