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...gift: an uncanny ability to sense ''special situations." Last week Floyd Odlum released Atlas' 1940 report, and with it a bagful of cats. His newest "special situation" was revealed to be Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., 7% cumulative Class A stock. First reaction of many a Wall Streeter: "What does Odlum see in that?" Second reaction: look...
...only to corral this made-to-order audience but also to be spotted opposite (and stymie) Radio's Number One Boy Jack Benny, who attracts upwards of 11,000,000 families of listeners for NBC each week. Known as Dear Mom, the CBS show is patterned after Ed Streeter's Dere Mable letters of World War I, is sponsored by Wrigley...
...tight-lipped T. J. Carlyle Gifford, liquidating agent for Britain's U. S. securities, proceeded to sell block after block of listed issues, one shrewd Wall Streeter watched with interest, figured it would soon be the turn of the unlisted items. How could they be turned into dollars? He had a plan. His name: Cyril J. C. Quinn. His address: Wall Street's $42,590,000 Tri-Continental Corp., an investment trust affiliated with the late Earle Bailie's banking house of J. & W. Seligman...
...board. One of them, John Barriger, also becomes a member of the executive committee. Young (41), baby-faced John Barriger is a railroad fan who learned to wear cufflinks and stiff collars at Kuhn. Loeb. A bright young man to old Wall Streeters, an outsider to New Dealers, he has two pet railroad theories: 1) their maintenance of way badly needs modernization, 2) they sorely need consolidation. Wall Street, he feels, was on the way toward consolidating them until Teddy Roosevelt's trustbusting put a stop to it. Since 1933, ex-Wall Streeter Barriger has been working...
...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...