Business: Bawl Street

Few publications reflect the temper of their communities more accurately than the Bawl Street Journal, annual parody of the sedate Wall Street Journal. Put out by the Bond Club of New York in connection with its annual field day, the Bawl Street Journal is edited by John A. Straley, a literate, sardonic Wall Streeter who is now advertising manager for Lord, Abbett & Co., investment dealers. Last week, while the Bond Club was frolicking in Sleepy Hollow, N. Y., more than 10,000 people paid 50ยข per copy to read the contributions Editor Straley had...

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