The Great Okie

William Bayard Okie Jr. '28, who went to New York from South Orange, N. J., via a year in Hanover, to make his fame and fortune, was ensconced among the fabulous of that cockeyed city when the NewYorker published a "Profile" of him in May. Titled The MagnificentTouch, it spent some fourteen of its valuable columns on his madcap life. That Okie is not as clownish as he is smart, may be surmised by his success in advertising both himself and his craft of window designing.

After leaving Dartmouth, Okie dabbled in movie acting at the old Famous-Players-Lasky studio in Astoria, puttered around the New York American as a reporter for nine ' months, and then, in 1927, went to work as salesman for Marcus & Co., Fifth Avenue Jewelers. However, he also studied at the Art Students League and the Master Institute of Guild Arts. Despite losing a pair of $12,000 emerald clips in a taxi, accepting a $2,250 check for a $22,500 pearl necklace, and tossing an empty champagne bottle through his first invisible-glass window the night before its unveiling, his career has soared steadily upward. Lucius Beebe cherishes him for copy, Nation's Business has given him its accolade, and he numbers among his clients the New York Telephone Company, Cunard White Star Line, National Biscuit Company, Coty's, and the American Medical Association.