Word: ayers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lineup: HARVARD ANDOVER Coleman, Irwin, Grace, Homans, r.w. r.w., Tenney, Davis, Poor Perkins, Winslow, Ogle, Muther, c. c., Hazen, Pike, Adams Watson, Downes, Graves, Eaton, l.w. l.w., Furber, Foster, Blanchard Roosevelt, Thompson, r.d. r.d., White, Seymour Francis, Wood, l.d. l.d., Hunt Schrafft, Freedley, Gordon, g. g., Rounds. Jones Referess--Ayer and Hughes. Time--Three fifteen minute periods...
Working out daily in the Common-wealth Armory are Winmill and Francis S. Von Stade '38, of last year's team Adrian H. Malone '37, and Fred Ayer, Jr. '37, members of the Junior Varsity squad Benjamin F. Dillingham '39, and William S. Rowe '39 of the Yardling squad...
...Gold Coast Orchestra, directed by John P. Ayer '37, played during the meal from the balcony of the dining hall. Several members of the Glee Club were also on hand to sing selections and old Christmas carols...
TIME errs in asserting (Nov. 2, p. 55) "there never was an N. W. Ayer in the old Philadelphia advertising firm of N. W. Ayer & Son." For nearly three years N. W. Ayer held a half interest. The business was founded in April 1869, by Francis Wayland Ayer who gave it his father's name, possibly as a personal tribute to his father, possibly because he himself barely turned 21, had less than a year's experience in business, and may have feared that his youth would count against him when he solicited business from Philadelphia merchants...
There are no Ayers in the firm today because none of F. W. Ayer's brothers lived to manhood and the founder himself produced no sons. Wil Wilfred Fry inherited the control of the business because his wife was F. W. Ayer's only surviving child, but not until he had amply proved his ability to manage the agency wisely and well. In June 1936, Wayland Ayer Fry, fresh from Colage University, went to work for N. W. Ayer & Son to learn the business from the bottom rung, as his father had done before...