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...blame it all on Adolf Hitler," said Chaperau. The Führer's connection was via one Rosa Weber, until lately a maid in the Lauer household. According to Albert Chaperau, she overheard much anti-Nazi conversation while she was serving Mr. and Mrs. Lauer, Chaperau, Publisher William Weintraub of Ken, "a London and Paris financier" named Serge Rubenstein, and three other guests at dinner in October...
...sharp-faced, kinetic, onetime merchandising counsel, Dave Smart joined with William Hobart Weintraub (now Esquire's co-publisher) to provide the clothing industry with a trade journal, Apparel Arts, first issued in 1931. This slick imitation of FORTUNE'S format had so ready a success that Dave Smart dared to establish Esquire ("The Magazine for Men") in the depths of 1933 depression. Its hefty size, he-man articles, sexy cartoons and drawings of flashy men's fashions immediately found it a public favor never achieved by less flamboyant aspirants such as Vanity Fair. Despite its 50? price...
...corporation which consolidated Esquire Inc. and Coronet Inc. in March) has not yet declared a dividend on its 500,000 shares of $1 par stock, of which President David Smart owned outright 181,450 shares, Secretary-Treasurer Alfred Smart 83,125, Vice-President John Smart 12,500, Co-Publisher Weintraub 33,010.* To make way for the first major public financing by a publishing house since the Securities Act of 1933, Dave Smart sold to the underwriters for $13.75 a share 35,000 shares, Alfred Smart 6,000 and others the rest of the total of 75,000 shares sold...
...letting the public in on his company, some observers concluded that new money was needed to finance a projected new magazine, of which only the name, Ken, and the editor, Ernest Hemingway, are known details. But Tide, smart advertising trade magazine, concluded: ". . . David A. Smart and William H. Weintraub, as far as anyone could tell, were merely realizing some well-earned $1,400,000 from the coffers of their company...
...These figures do not include the shares held in various trusts in which the Smart boys and Mr. Weintraub are interested...