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Otto H. Kahn. In the tonneau of his limousine Otto Hermann Kahn (if the reporter had not made a mistake) settled himself for whatever reflections were his at that hour of an autumn afternoon. He might have thought, for a cigar puff or two, of widely separated and irrelevant things???of the year he served in the German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call...
...CINDER BUGGY?Garet Garrett?Dutton ($2.00). Wrought iron made New Damascus great, in its moment?wrought iron and two men, Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron, the popular, engaging, lovable idealist; Enoch the dour and practical, well-hated, well-feared. The men clashed over two things??? a woman and steel. Popular Aaron won the woman but his dream of a steel age failed?it was still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel...
Nothing is quite so impressive as complete impersonality. Perhaps a leading reason why the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. is so often accused of completely illogical and ridiculous things???such as starting panics and thereby depreciating its own securities and properties?is the contrast which this building affords to its neighbors and its generally bland, inscrutable and complete impersonality...
...States for some years, selling bonds or real estate or fraternity jewelry with equal indifference and success and falling back on odd jobs as a waiter or laborer when broke. He was an easy spender and a rolling stone and his Wander-jahre brought him the knowledge of three things???that he had a certain gift as a smoking-car or pool-parlor raconteur, that he was attractive to women, and that, as he grew older, he wanted some more permanent success than his roving habits offered...