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...newspapers buy from McClure Newspaper Syndicate. First half-dozen articles were typically in the heavy-handed Guinan manner, supporting her insistence that she was writing every word, employing no "ghost." Excerpts: "Well, Cal, they've got me doing it now. . . . We can work together all right. You preach thrift and economy and when your readers have saved all they can, send them to me. I'll take them- and how. Presidents have always been my long suit (not underwear), especially when they are senators. . . . You know the difference between the pessimist and the optimist-the pessimist thinks...
Died. Simon William Straus, 63, Manhattan banker, chairman of S. W. Straus & Co. (Manhattan financiers), Chicago's Franklin Trust & Savings Bank, the American Society for Thrift, financial backer of Manhattan's Chanin and Chrysler buildings; after long illness, of anemia, at his home in Manhattan...
...oldtime virtue of thrift, now looked upon as somewhat obsolete, is, in the final analysis, the basis of independence in old age for men on moderate fixed...
There is his picture of a Boston gentleman, really rich, who has made an art of Thrift (in this case Thrift is really a euphemism for the tightest sort of penny-pinching). He has invented a device, whereby his pretty niece's 1910 model car can be propelled very reasonably on kerosene, once it has been started on the more expensive gasoline. He has had his trousers turned three times. He shares his newspaper with a neighbor. And yet he is the possessor of one of the Hub's hidden fortunes. An exaggerated caricature? Of course, but very good reading...
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