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Quiet Graham Bethune Grosvenor was president of wide-flung Aviation Corp. for two years when he was succeeded by hardbitten Frederic Gallup Coburn. President Coburn had served approximately two years last week when suddenly he relinquished the executive office on the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building to a broad-framed young man with a grin and a pipe. It was not surprising that the name of the president-elect, La Motte Turck Cohu, should be better known in Wall Street than in airway operations. Avco, which has yet to show black ink on a profit & loss statement...
...shows typical examples of New York sky-scrapers ranging from the classic Gothic of the Woolworth Building, to the ultra modern emphasis upon the vertical line as exemplified in the soaring tiers of windows, and strips of concrete of the Daily News Building. The graduated indents of the older Chanin Building are in sharp contrast to the sheer lift of the new Empire State Building. showing that transition is taking place rapidly...
...Hershfield work shop is high in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The front of the door is panelled with richly carved Oriental wood which, says its owner, once belonged to an Emperor. To it is thumbtacked a hand lettered sign: "Can see no one by appointment. Phone Murray Hill 2-7889.* Kindly don't loiter in hall. Hershfield...
...Said It. In the academic purlieus of Chanin's 46th Street Theatre, where Tait University of Good News was founded three years ago, last week another institution of learning was born. It was Kenton College, and to it flocked winsome Mary Lawlor, Funnyman Lou Holtz and the rest of the broad-trousered, brief-skirted cast of You Said It. In singing, dancing, funmaking, there was little to choose between Kenton and Tait...
...last week to work out with President Trippe troublesome details of their companies' routes in South America. (Pan American wants the privilege of a permanent base at Cayenne, French Guiana, where Aeropostale has exclusive flying rights.) M. La Font and his aides saw the newspaper story, rushed to the Chanin Building before even the Pan American office force had arrived, waited in an agitated huddle. President Trippe placated them, put in a hurry call for Technical Adviser Charles Augustus Lindbergh to take them to luncheon at the Cloud Club on the 66th floor of the Chrysler Building across the street...