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Secret of Success. "The secret of my success," Founder Philip Rosenthal boasted, "is a combination of American merchandising ideas and German craftsmanship." The son of a Westphalian china merchant, Rosenthal ran away to the U.S. at 17, punched cows in Texas, rode horseback mail routes in Colorado, wound up heading the glass and china department of a Detroit department store. In 1879, when he was 24, Rosenthal returned to Germany to buy china. Instead, he bought a castle near Selb, in the heart of North Bavaria's famed porcelain country, and started turning out decorated chinaware. By 1934, when...
Died. Hugh Montague Trenchard, Viscount Trenchard, 83, longtime philosopher of air warfare, first Marshal (1927) and principal founder of the R.A.F. chief (1931-35) of London's Metropolitan Police; after long illness: in London. During World War I "Boom" Trenchard commanded the Royal Flying Corps in France, was the most vigorous advocate of the use of air power to break through the trench-fought stalemate...
...wish to maintain amicable relations with all organizations, but we must also insist on carrying on our own programs without interference from any quarter," declared William C. Brady '57, founder of the Conservative Club...
...Conservative Club also exists, but its founder and former president, William Brady '57, says that the organization will not campaign for candidates...
Died. Maria Clopton Jackson, 93, widow of C. S. ("Sam") Jackson, doughty founder (in 1902) of Portland's independent Oregon Journal (circ. 182,257), longtime board chairman of the Journal Publishing Co.; in Portland...