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...Phyllis Ourieff, BrooklineRochester H. Rogers Jr. Margery Williams, WorcesterJoseph Romano Catherine Pindo, BrooklynWilliam L. Roney Virginia Reed, Long IslandWalter N. Rothschild Polly Faulkner, CambridgeWilbur H. Sawyer Lois Greaser, Haddenfield, N. J.Francis X. Scannell Margaret McLaughlin, RoslindalePaul J. R. Schlessinger Anne Singer, CambridgeHeinzdieter von Schoenermarck Dorothy Rick, BrooklineMarvin J. Shapiro Sylvia Shugarman, CambridgePhilip P. Sharples Georgiana Pratt, Chestnut HillLawrence K. Shaul Groen Tucker, Scranton, Pa.Harvey P. Sleeper Margaret Bassett, Rockville Center, L. I.Lawrence H. Sloane Janet Barrow, BrooklineGurdon H. Slosberg Jane Woronack, Brooklyn, N. Y.George L. Snow II Peggy Ann Cross, Wellesley HillsErnest C. Staber Betty Faye Smith, Kansas City, Mo.Richard...
...without traveling through armies, or in northern France and Belgium through heaped wreckage and broken walls. Revolutions threatened and populations starved. Joyce in Paris was close to starving too. But help came to him from U. S. and English expatriates. American Poet Robert McAlmon lent him money, Bookshop Owner Sylvia Beach began publishing Ulysses. Ezra. Pound, Idaho's great expatriate, introduced him to Harriet Weaver...
...Hollywood went H. R. H. Sylvia, white-skinned Ranee of Sarawak,* for a public reconciliation with her cinemastruck daughter, Mrs. Bob Gregory ("Princess Baba" of Sarawak), who married a wrestler against her mother's wishes. To newsmen the Ranee complained: "My daughter is not a princess and never was a princess!" Added pretty Mrs. Gregory: "And my name was never Princess Baba either...
Though smart operators can make money by straight buying and selling of Government issues if they watch the market carefully, or by arbitrage if they can detect unwarranted price spreads between different issues, Sylvia Porter thinks the softest touch in the Government market is "free riding." When the Treasury invites subscriptions for a new issue, anyone can write himself down for a block by depositing 10% of the purchase price on the line, the balance payable on delivery. Because the Treasury takes care to make new issues attractive, they invariably command a premium over the par purchase price, thus anyone...
...Sylvia Porter herself has taken free rides on ten Treasury issues, has each year doubled in this and other ways the capital she put into the Government market. She speculates with the help of complicated graphs, for which her husband, Reed Richard Porter of Irving Trust Co., has to do the arithmetic. In what spare time remains, she plays the piano, goes to the movies, and writes fiction that thus far has impressed no publisher...