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...failure of their car to make a curve on Memorial Drive Saturday afternoon, Benjamin O. Gardiner '43, of Gardiner, Maine, Walter R. McVeigh '43, of New York City and William T. Emmot '42, of Glen Gove. New York the driver, crashed into a tree, and last night were interned in Metropolitan hospitals, all badly injured...
...middle '20s, Arthur was president and Aroline had passed on Gove leadership to her daughter Lydia, a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), big-boned, scrappy spinster who became the Scarlett O'Hara of patent medicines. Lydia was impatient with Pinkham advertising. She wanted to pay out over 50% of gross sales for old-fashioned testimonial advertising. Arthur and his brothers (Vice President Daniel, Secretary Charles) wanted a more sophisticated modern campaign with expenditures not over 30%. With the board of directors deadlocked (three Pinkhams, three Goves), Lydia locked company securities in a safe deposit box, ran off with...
When Isaac Pinkham lost his shirt in the 1873 panic, his wife began selling a mysterious, home-brewed potion she had long given away to distraught friends. The potion soon overflowed into a national panacea for all kinds of female complaints. After Lydia died, Aroline Pinkham Gove and Charles Pinkham, each with a 50% share of their mother's business, kept her face enshrined on every package, signed her name in answering 100,000 letters a year from grateful or suffering women. By last year Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had netted Lydia and descendants well over...
...Federal Trade Commission, the American Medical Association have forced the company to water down its once extravagant claims to a pompous nothingness. Current label: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted." As for Lydia Gove, whose interests also include a $250,000 investment in the Howard Johnson ice cream & restaurant chain, her feud with the Pinkhams is not necessarily over. Her probable next move: an appeal to the full bench of Maine's Supreme Court...
Kansas-born Gove Hambidge believes that he wasted a lot of time at college (Columbia). His father never went beyond elementary school, but became a famed art scholar and originated the theory of "dynamic symmetry." Mr. Hambidge's conclusion: the only kind of education that counts is self-education...