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With a sense of humor befitting his heavy frame, Herbert Fleishhacker is today one of those unusual personalities who cause some travelers to describe San Francisco as the most cosmopolitan city in the U. S. His close cronies find amusement at his joy in a wager at golf, bridge, backgammon, dominoes, his even deeper desire to win at all of them. They have long since become accustomed to his practical jokes, are not surprised when he hands out explosive cigars, shaves during business conferences, becomes irrepressibly boisterous. And shrewd Mr. Fleishhacker now finds his name firmly imbedded in local projects...
Lots of "firsts" are frequently claimed by people who have more self-assertiveness than actual knowledge of affairs, and I would wager that many a one in the men's wear business, no matter by whom it is now claimed, can be traced right back to Madison Avenue & 44th Street or Broadway corner 22nd Street...
...Homer's time and do Greek dances and take you in and give you their best bread if only you'll tell them a story of your own country and show them something new. I say, "So I've heard" it's like this. But by now I wager it's a town on a mountain top with an Otis escalator going up, a Grand Hotel on the highest peak, the American Express on Main Street and Haig and Haig on every other bill board. And you'll meet an Oxford student at every bar, a Harvard man in every...
Edward Ballard had a gambler's impulsive temperament, but in running his casino he was shrewd and businesslike. No local resident was ever permitted in his gambling rooms, no liquor was ever allowed, all patrons had to wear evening dress, no employe was permitted to wager a nickel. One year Gamester Ballard made $1,000,000. He bought the West Baden Springs Hotel, and later, with a Detroit gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business...
Though he still "didn't know of an easier way to make $10,000," if the wager were on the final figures of Digest and News, Mr. Funk felt that "as a matter of policy it would be impossible for the Literary Digest to bet on its' own poll. . . . The magazine takes no sides . . . plays no favorites...