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...days of the great tobacco combine, when dashing young Pierre Lorillard left a director's meeting to join a group of fun-loving friends, James Buchanan Duke said quietly: "I think I'll have to buy me some friends sometime." But like all great tycoons, he could surround himself with able, loyal subordinates. For his board of trustees he chose 15 men he knew well, all Southerners but one. Board president and largest in calibre is George Garland Allen, president of Duke Power Co., vice board-chairman of British-American Tobacco Co. Treasurer is W. C. Parker, long a member...
Although it may be held that the extreme move advocated by the Council would undo much of the progress made by the attempt to establish "athletics for all", such action seems only logical amid the circumstances which will surround the final steps in the change to the House system. Many of the teams marked for abolition by the Council have no long traditions to argue for their retention in the face of the maladjustments which will be created by the full application of the House Plan. It would be a wise move to do away with their detraction from house...
After being permitted to glimpse the inner office of the young financial genius (as indicated, Douglas in plain clothes) and being impressed by large transactions in stock sales made through a selection of innumerable telephones which surround the man, we watch Miss Daniels drawl her way into the sactum sanctorum in order to win a bet. The young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes...
...suitor of Cinemactress Clara Bow), disappeared when police stupidly notified her by telephone of Gangster Marco's demise. ¶Three armed robbers entered a 5th Avenue jeweler's office, took $8,000 worth of diamonds, then, frightened, fled precipitately. An alarm brought 100 policemen and detectives to surround the building. Two of the thieves were apprehended. One was Roy H. Sloane, onetime boy prodigy of Carnegie School of Technology and Columbia University, who was sentenced five years ago to serve ten years in Sing Sing for an automobile theft. Prodigy Sloane studied law in prison, argued...
Futurist Marinetti's recipe for carneplastico, "an original dish suggesting the Italian landscape": Surround a tall up right cylinder of minced veal stuffed with eleven vegetables by a ring of sausages draped between large balls of minced chicken. Crown the whole with golden honey...