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...Rapport, Virginia Briggs, Reid Jorgenson, W. G. Hazard, E. Ball, E. Fisher, G. Seels, O. W. Phinney, H. Weld, T. W. Thorndike, Jr., E. A. Jonson, G. W. Westalke, R. M. Campbell, Roger Potter, Nancy White, Persis White, Prescott Winkley, E. S. Baker, Eleanor Friedman, Charles B. Feibleman, Cyrus Wood, R. M. Low, Barbara Klingenhargen, James P. Reiher, Lillian Townesed, G. C. Kibbs, Leda Wilson, John P. Faville, E. H. Pringle, Jr., Brad Datson, W. L. Dana, J. DeQ. Briggs, Mary Morse, H. Babcock Brown, Eleanor Howe, Stanley D. Peirce, Jane Ewell, Edward Rowe, Marguerite Roberts, James Fella Hill, Alice...
Empire, Not until it turned into the 20th Century did the U. S. magazine business start swelling to mammoth proportions. At the root of that amazing growth was Cyrus Curtis who developed advertising as a sort of huge hydro-electric system to drive the wheels of the publishing business. What Henry Ford did for automobiles, Cyrus Curtis did for magazines- and they both waxed very, very rich. Today the House of Curtis towers so high above all others that there is no room for comparison...
...American Foundation, gave yearly prizes for outstanding service to the city. In Philadelphia Mrs. Bok founded and still heads the Curtis Institute of Music. She is chairman of the opera, director of the orchestra association, and a generous donor to Philadelphia museums and charities. The empire left by Cyrus Curtis was as brilliant socially as it was professionally and financially...
Heirs. No doubt it will always be called Curtis Publishing Co. But when Cyrus, aged 83. died, the family name was buried with him. An only son. he had no sons. In 1875 he married Louisa Knapp who started Ladies' Home Journal. She bore him one daughter, Mary Louise, who grew up to marry Editor Bok. and in turn to bear him two sons. Curtis & Gary. Less than six months after his first wife died in 1910, Publisher Curtis married his second cousin, Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury, widow of a Milwaukee lumberman. She died a year ago. This...
...When Cyrus Curtis's will was opened a month ago. the public first realized what the family had long known-that Stepson-in-law Martin was not to succeed to the throne. His wife. Alice, was bequeathed $100,000 outright. But so far as the publishing property is concerned, there was no provision for a Martin or any other Pillsbury issue until the direct line of Boks should wither away. To Mary Louise Bok her father left his residences at Wyncote and at Camden, Me., his gorgeous yacht Lyndonia, the income from his Curtis stock, everything he owned-except...