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...luck is not limited to golf-he has made a huge success out of everything he has touched. Fourth of six brothers, he was born in New York City 51 years ago. At 25 he went to work as a salesman in the wood pulp & paper firm of Perkins-Goodwin Co. where his older brother Lou already had a job. Three years later Union Bag & Paper, biggest U. S. bagmaker, offered him $40 a week to come to them. After a month he was fired in an economy drive. But the Calder luck came through on schedule-an older salesman...
...profit. A price war next year produced a deficit again, but since then Union has enjoyed steady profits. However, to take the drastic steps needed to catch up with the bag revolution, Sandy Calder needed control of the company. He and Brother Lou Calder, now president of Perkins-Goodwin, bought Union common stock steadily at its 1932 low of $5.50. In January 1934 they had control and headed south to Savannah, Ga. to build one of the world's biggest paper plants...
...Lame Duck Amendment in 1932. One of the most active House Committees is that on Labor. Last fortnight a widow of 62, New Jersey's Mary Teresa Norton, succeeded to the chair of the Labor Committee and last week another widow of 62, New York's Caroline Goodwin O'Day, succeeded to the chair of the Election Committee...
...great-grand-father of all U. S. summer stock corn-panies. In 1890 a sentimental showman named John Elitch established in a grove of big cottonwoods outside Denver a combination zoo, amusement park and botanical garden. Main attraction was a theatre where vaudeville was performed. Julia Marlowe, Nat Goodwin and Phineas T. Barnum were on hand to open Elitch's Gardens, and Eugene Field was there to report it for the Denver Republican. The place has been a repository of big names ever since. After John Elitch's death in 1891, his widow switched to legitimate shows...
...house on West 53rd Street, then two weeks ago it moved to temporary quarters in Rockefeller Center. The new building will occupy the site of the West 53rd Street place and use part of the adjacent Rockefeller sites in the rear for a garden. Designed by Architects Philip L. Goodwin & Edward D. Stone, the new museum will be a block of concrete, white marble, dark stone, glass brick and plate glass, the first "functional" museum building in the U. S. Taking advantage of its $1,000,000, block-deep plot, almost the entire ground floor of the new museum will...