Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McKinlay, who rose from a cashboy, Marshall Field was an Institution. To Chairman McKinsey, who entered from the top as a professional management counsel, Marshall Field was a corporation with a problem. The two viewpoints were incompatible. As Mr. McKinlay's successor, Mr. McKinsey suggested Vice President Frederick Dexter Corley, a tall, blue-eyed, dark-haired merchant of 53 who got his start in the millinery department at 18. The suggestion was accepted by the Marshall Field directorate within five minutes...
Newspaper editors are not as a rule fond of pressagents, but Dexter Fellows is a pressagent extraordinary, and he ballyhoos the most widely beloved of U. S. businesses. On the annual news that the circus is coming to town, even the dourest city editor is moved to let his newshawks soar far from earthy fact into the empyrean of their fancy-especially when the harbinger of this perennial Noah's Ark is such a downy dove as Dexter Fellows. In the 43 years Harbinger Fellows has been pressagenting for the circus, he has never failed to get favorable free...
THIS WAY TO THE BIG SHOW: THE LIFE OF DEXTER FELLOWS-Dexter W. Fellows and Andrew A. Freeman-Viking...
...their platter lips. He owns an adjective factory in New Britain, Conn., whence he sallies forth each year, like a vernal Santa Claus, to scatter his sesquipedalian largess to thirstily gaping yokels. These and hundreds of such amiable Munchausenisms have been printed in the U. S. Press about Dexter William Fellows...
Born inappropriately in Boston, Dexter William Fellows was named after a race horse and a favorite uncle. Like every small boy he fell flat under the spell of his first circus; unlike others, he never recovered. When, barely grown up, he got a chance to join Pawnee Bill's "Historic Wild West" as pressagent, he jumped at it with both feet. Once in his niche, he was never tempted to seek a higher pinnacle. The late Ivy Lee, then a hard-working but undistinguished Manhattan newshawk, gave Fellows the benefit of his own ambitious advice about becoming a tycoon...