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...disclaims any intention of raising its more important discount rate, upon which banks base their prime rate, or most favored price for business loans. For the past two years, the discount rate has been held at 3% and the prime rate at 4%-4½%. Says Chicago's Tilden Cummings, president of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.: "Until business improves very substantially, you won't see much change in the prime rate...
...Next best record: the U.S.'s seven straight victories, run up in 1920-26 by Bill Tilden, Bill Johnston and Vinnie Richards. The string was broken by France in 1927, and the U.S. did not win the Davis Cup again until...
...table in the downstairs lounge, George Gershwin toiled for 16 hours a day over An American in Paris. Promptly at 10 a.m. every Sunday, Hemingway rumbled in to sip his customary tank of whisky sours. The Dolly Sisters made it a port of call, and so did Bill Tilden, Knute Rockne, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Vincent Sheean, Jack Dempsey, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. To casual travelers, and more importantly to American expatriates in the '20s and early '30s, Harry's New York Bar in Paris was a singular institution-a home away from home, a living shrine...
...centerfielder's head. In 21 years of big league ball, he hit 714 home runs, a total that has never been approached. In all, Ruth set or tied 54 major league records. In the golden '20s, the era of big names-Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey, Bill Tilden-Babe Ruth was the biggest draw of them...
...generous New Yorkers who never saw the final result. In 1848 immigrant Fur Tycoon John Jacob Astor left $400,000 to start the Astor Library; in 1870 wealthy Bibliophile James Lenox gave $300,000 for a public library to house his own superb collection; in 1886 onetime Governor Samuel Tilden left $2,000,000 for "a free library and reading room.'' With another $5,200,000 from Andrew Carnegie for branch libraries, the Astor-Lenox-Tilden benefactions launched the New York Public Library...