Word: curtises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The late Cyrus H. K. Curtis had a golden touch with magazines (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman), but his newspaper ventures turned to lead. He bought and killed off three famed Philadelphia newspapers to keep his morning and evening Public Ledger alive, also acquired the New York Evening...
Heir Martin proved a good advertising salesman but very small shakes as a publisher. In five years he has lost-one by sale, one by merger, one by forfeit- three of the papers into which millions of Curtis magazine profits were poured. Last week it appeared that Publisher Martin might...
Old and bitter family feelings were deeply involved in the matter. Jack Martin and his socially minded wife have long been on chilly terms with the other Curtis heirs-Daughter Mary Louise Curtis Bok, Grandsons William Curtis and Gary Bok. Among the trustees who run the Curtis estate, the Boks...
Publisher Brush, now 66, sticks mostly around Salem, where he owns a historic house, fishes and dabbles in Republican politics. Publisher Moore, 50, an oldtime telegrapher and Hearst feature salesman, runs things at the Canton headquarters. Last week it was reported that: 1) Brush-Moore has taken a one-month...
Married. Curtis Bean Ball, 42, first husband of Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger; and Katharine Miller Leas, 22, Haverford, Pa. socialite; in Philadelphia.