Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then, with little direction from above, he has played a sharp game in Philadelphia journalism. Soon after the purchase of the Ledger (1913), the Evening Ledger was founded. Then the Evening Telegraph was merged with the Evening Ledger. Then the Ledger absorbed the North American and the Press. In...
After Elverson Sr.'s death, Col. James Elverson Jr. managed the paper. Last year Col. Elverson died, leaving the property, housed in a big new $10,000,000 plant, to his sister, Mrs. Eleanor Elverson Patenotre, relict of a onetime French Ambassador to the U. S., whose son Raymond is...
What Publisher Martin intends to do with the Inquirer is still a secret between him and his maker, Father-in-Law Curtis. Shrewdest journalistic surmise is that he bought it primarily to keep it out of rival hands.
As a result of the purchase, the combined circulation of the Curtis-Martin newspapers in Philadelphia becomes over 823,000, not quite equal to the total city distribution of the Bulletin, Record and News. Publisher Martin's journals are read by the bulk of the "best people," carry the best...
The Martin menage is located across the road from the Curtis home in Wyncote, Pa. (Philadelphia suburb) and consists of Mrs. Martin, two daughters, three sons. Daughter Isabel is betrothed to William Porter Oglesby, Philadelphia socialite. Son Harrison is going to Annapolis next year.