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...Leslie Streeter, American skiier from Northfield Vermont, who suffered torn ligaments and a fractured shoulder Monday was permitted to leave the hospital for his hotel yesterday. During practice on a treacherous Olympic hill the 22-year-old Army private fell and broke a small bone in his shoulder. The United States team physician said that the injury would put the skiier out of action for a month...
...Prochnow's output, if not his sales, surpassed that of another banker-author, Manhattan's Bank of New York Vice President Edward Streeter, who wrote Dere Mable, Father of the Bride...
Outside the quality press there is very little real news in most British newspapers. How did British popular dailies get so bad? Many a Fleet Streeter blames it all on the late great Lord Northcliffe, father of British popular journalism. But the source is broader. When Northcliffe started the popular Daily Mail in 1896, British newspapers were thoroughly stuffy, aimed at a tiny educated class. Northcliffe created the "penny press" for a mass audience that had grown literate as a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution...
Sound Money. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. was one of the city's biggest when Chase was founded in a one-room Broadway office in 1877 by John Thompson, a Wall Streeter with such an abiding admiration for Sound-Moneyman Salmon P. Chase. Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, that he named the bank for him. While the Manhattan Co.'s bank grew slowly, Chase grew rapidly. It took over so many other banks that it once had 84 directors...
...Wall Streeter McGinnis also announced that he wants to merge the New Haven with the $269 million Boston & Maine Railroad within two years, says this will give New England the benefits of greater economy and better service. Most New Englanders are against the move, including Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. But after a meeting with the Governor, McGinnis said flatly that he still intends to steam full-speed ahead. He and his friends have already bought 350,000 shares of B. & M. stock, now own 42.5%. If that is not enough, said McGinnis, "we are willing to put in more...