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...reports show a reserve for old annuities which grows smaller each year and will disappear when the last annuitant dies. Bank of New York is dominated by no family or group except the self-perpetuating board of 26 trustees. Its sole branch is a colonial mansion uptown in the swank residential section. There the tellers may receive their socialite customers behind desks instead of wickets...
...Valley Barge Line Co.; Alden Corp., which owns a closed furniture factory in Asheville, N. C., a vacant factory in Philadelphia and 17 vacant lots in Hoboken, N. J.; Palace Co., which owns an amusement park at Santa Monica, Calif.; Rewark Realty Corp., which owns the equity in a swank 52-acre Long Island estate; Red Banks Properties, Inc., which owns and operates a fruit ranch in the San Joaquin Valley, Calif...
...fickle as what Wall Street calls "cat-&-dog stocks" are the hothouse prices of modernist paintings. Swank gallery connections, smartchart plugging, the humors of art critics and socialite fads too often puff them out of line with real values. Last week for the first time since 1927 works by such debatable modernists as Amédé Modigliani, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Jules Pascin and Maurice Utrillo were opened to the rude winter blast of a public auction in Manhattan's Rains Auction Rooms. Before a hard-boiled dealer and socialite crowd, one of Modigliani's tuberculous women...
...talked of becoming a publisher. Finally he bowed to his father's wish, has been cramming spasmodically in Mellon National since 1931. He last made news when he and Lucius Beebe, famed japestering newsman, won a prize magnum of champagne offered by Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino for the first guests of the season to arrive by horse & sleigh. Dick Mellon, however, took to power from the start. He entered Mellon National immediately after he graduated from Princeton in 1922, was made an assistant cashier two years later, vice president five years later. Able, affable, handsome...
...such prize animals are usually only too glad to pay for it. For 13 years Haseltine has been freezing champions into stone and bronze as accurately as a Stone Age man graphing a bison on his cave wall. Last week the results, tilling two rooms in Manhattan's swank Knoedler Galleries, were packed up and shipped to Chicago's Field Museum at Marshall Field's expense to go on permanent exhibition...