William Crapo Durant* is a wiry little man, 64 years old, still indomitable in the face of physical or financial blows. He was lying abed last week in the Post Graduate Hospital, Manhattan, his scalp badly lacerated from a Florida train wreck early in the month. His physicians could not keep him quiet at home; ordered him to the hospital; permitted him to use the telephone. He learned that some of his pet stocks—among them Baldwin Locomotive, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, and Independent Oil & Gas were being gnawed at on the Stock...
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