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...days on end two men were lashed to the wheel day & night, three worked the pumps, three slept. Nobody looked sternward where the seas piled up. They felt better looking ahead. Every man on board was seasick though all were experienced sailors except 200-lb. Whitey Peterson of Bristol, R. I. Landlubber Peterson fought the sea like a personal enemy, took the longest stretches at the wheel. Weak from lack of sleep and living on canned goods and apples, the eight adventurers and their bosses could hardly stand by the time they made Southampton. Said Sir Thomas when he heard...
...Ganga Singhji Bahadur (Signer for India of the Treaty of Versailles, member of His Majesty's Imperial War Cabinet, veteran of the World War, repeatedly decorated by Edward VII and George V, Hon. LL.D. Cambridge and Edinburgh, D.C.L. Oxford, Freeman of the Cities of London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol...
Elected. Lee Hastings Bristol of Syracuse, N. Y., vice president of Bristol-Myers Co.; to be president of the Association of National Advertisers (see p. 48); succeeding Bernard Lichtenberg, vice president of the Alexander Hamilton Institute...
Elected A. N. A. president for next year was Lee Hastings Bristol, vice president of Bristol-Myers Co. He succeeds Bernard Lichtenberg, short, popular, alert vice president of Alexander Hamilton Institute. President Bristol is 38, first worked for Bishop Calculating Recorder Co., left this business in 1923 to tour the U. S., study retail merchandising methods and dealer reaction to window-displays; especially in the drug business. He became associated with Bristol-Myers the following year as secretary and advertising manager, was made a vice president in 1928. Bristol-Myers is a subsidiary of Drug, Inc., and among the products...
...banquet in Bristol that night in Mr. Scullin's honor he was addressed as follows by His Majesty's Dominion Secretary, James Henry ("Jim") Thomas...