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Show Found Pleasure Only in Business Triumph The American business man. taking his vacation abroad. Is one of the most depressing sights of the Riviera, according ac-cording to Lloyrf Morris, writing In Harpers. "1 recall an American whom 1 met n the terrace of a restaurant lu the 1,111s back of Nice." he says. 'His wife had inveigled hlin Into taking a winter holiday; it was so .much more smart, she said, than a summer vuca tlon Thev had come to the Uiviera for the winter. I Umuired whether tie was enjoying It. 'Enjoying It? U-l no!' He spat expressively. Bu 111 ,el you. he added, his eyes lighting ,,'u 'back home my factory has Just s,,ld a thousand beds. New hotel in Cleve'and Had a 'ire today.' He ...,'red oil into the distance. He didn i .,, ,ie vineuirds In the valley below the blue Mediterranean, trained by .nils. And when he added wistfully 'I wish I was there now.' I knew what he saw a thousand beds, in crate.-stamped crate.-stamped with his name, on the ship ping platform of his busy factory." |