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...agent he had been for many years, by buying it (for a reported $10,000,000). Its parent company, International Proprietaries, showed $944,000 earnings in 1931. In 1930 he bought from Colgate-Palmolive-Peet their Pompeian beauty cream business. His partners in the deal were the Shoemakers of Elmira, N. Y., owners of the Frostilla line of beauty lotions, which Ritchie once sold in Canada. In 1931, again in partnership with the Shoemakers, he bought from Scott & Bowne for "several million dollars" their famed old Scott's Emulsion. Thus he was in full stride of expansion when Death...
Jonathan Sieferth England '35, of Pittsfield, has been elected second assistant wrestling manager and will be full manager in his Senior year. Leonard Jesse Epstein '36 of Elmira, New York, was elected manager of Freshman wrestling...
Small, hustling Motorman Willys was an Overland dealer in Elmira, N. Y. when in the 1907 panic the company he represented neared the brink of bankruptcy. He scurried to Indianapolis, put up $350 (hurriedly raised in a saloon) to help meet the payroll. Reorganizing the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager and purchasing agent, he made Willys-Overland a leader in its field during the next decade. The Industry regards him as its pioneer in instalment selling. But Willys-Overland was overshadowed by the rise of General Motors and Chrysler in the great motor boom...
...lightweight, high-speed cameras, every reporter may now be his own photographer. And should be. The old World once issued handy cameras to all its newshawks (who soon lost them). So did the Journal. The practice is now coming back on the Gannett chain papers (notably in Albany and Elmira, N. Y.). whose editors are still searching for an "ideal foolproof camera...
Last week, while U. S. pilots were soaring over what they like to call "America's Wasserkuppe" (Elmira), Guenther Groenhoff, No. 1 soaring pilot of Germany, took off from the real Wasserkuppe, in the Rhoen Mountains, to ride before a thunderstorm. At about 250 ft. his sailplane's rudder carried away. Pilot Groenhoff jumped but his 'chute had no time to open. He plunged into a wood, was killed...