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Last February 41-year-old Elisha Waterman, grandnephew of the founder, resigned his job as executive vice president of L. E. Waterman Co., famed makers of pens. Not only did he resign, but last week he sued to dissolve the company. Not only did he sue, but in effect he called his relatives and co-officials boobs...
...promptly discarded some of the company's tested methods, ordered employes around brusquely. No easier did he make the job of his younger brother Frank, shy, quiet president of the company. Last week, in Elisha's complaint to a New York court, Brother Frank saw himself described as "an inexperienced person, incapable of directing the affairs of the Corporation and unwilling to cooperate with the plaintiff." For other company officials, members of "a small group of relatives" who (said the complaint) have thwarted his efforts to "rebuild" the company, Elisha had similar epithets. His cousin, Louis E. Waterman...
...ordinary family-business careerist is Elisha. In 1925 his father, then president of L. E. Waterman Co., tossed him out of his job with the company. On his own, Elisha took a $35-a-month flat in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, cooked hamburgers, washed dishes, wrote detective stories for a living. In 1938 his father died, left him just $100. But his father's death also left Elisha a beneficiary of the trust that controlled L. E. Waterman Co. Elisha moved back into the company, was fulsomely hailed in the press as the "Cinderella Man" (TIME, June...
Kane. Another illustrious tough guy who got a hand in Philadelphia last week was Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57). While scamping his studies as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart. Undaunted, he studied medicine, got a post as assistant surgeon in the Navy. He fell ill in China, was twice invalided home from the Mexican War, once with coast fever, again with wounds and raging typhus. Undaunted still, he went on an expedition in 1850 to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, who had been...
...Elisha Kane also found time for love. He had a secret affair with Maggie Fox, a celebrated spiritualist who produced spirit noises by cracking her toes. His letters to her were printed in Love Life of Dr. Kane, now a collector's item...