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...October 1946 . . . But this island had been closed behind a kind of Iron Curtain by the Japanese ever since the Manchuria incident in 1931, so there were very few people with even a fair reading knowledge of English . . . By good luck we got an excellent American professor, Mr. W. Dorland, who came to Formosa from Peking. We opened a night English school and it was an immediate success, enrolling from 300 to 400 students per month. Our magazine sales began increasing rapidly...
Married. Sarah Branch Jackson Coonley Morgan, daughter of Robert Jackson, onetime secretary of the Democratic National Committee, ex-wife of John Clark Coonley, Boston chain-store magnate, and widow of William Forbes Morgan, onetime Democratic National Treasurer; and Milton Dorland Doyle, Manhattan broker, vice president of the Washington Redskins; in Ellicott City...
...view in Dorland Hall in London was a 14-panel mural, painted on wood, entitled A Pageant of Beauty. Mrs. Lewis had paid for it to advertise her cosmetics. Mrs. Thomas, with four assistants to do the cultural research and most of the painting, had designed and executed it. Impressed, Soviet Russia's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ivan Michaelovich Maisky, had asked Mrs. Lewis to exhibit it in Russia where Communist maidens are beginning to take a livelier interest in prettying up. Since Mrs. Lewis has no intention of starting a Moscow Elizabeth Arden Salon, she refused his request...
...made his product look as much like a champagne bottle as possible (green glass, gold-foil collar), went after the public with a svelte and costly advertising campaign. The results so astounded his Canadian bosses that they sold the parent company to him on the spot. But Parry Dorland Saylor soon struck a snag. He wanted control of a minority interest owned by four rich young Manhattan socialites including John Wanamaker Jr. and William Rhinelander Stewart Jr. The young men slept all morning, went to parties in the evening, could not be brought together in one place in the afternoon...
...secured exclusive U. S. sales rights on Johnny Walker Scotch whiskey, Sandeman's wines and Cinzano vermouth. Finally it began marketing Canada Dry gin. The company now admits that these liquor ventures were not altogether successful. Net profit for 1934 of $439,500 was, according to President Parry Dorland Saylor, "not all that we hoped it would be." Like many another liquor company, Canada Dry had overestimated U. S. liquor consumption, taken a substantial loss on sales through price markdowns...