Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without complications." He shaved standing up; barber Martin Himmelsbach cut his hair. He phoned the Doud home to say hello to Mamie's mother. With his painting easel, he sat out in the bright-lit sundeck foyer in a straightback chair, copying a recent LIFE photograph of his grandson, David, which showed the boy in a black ten-gallon hat with a fishing rod over his shoulder...
Even with this profitable record, Inland has been reluctant to expand. But when bustling, 53-year-old Joe Block, grandson of Inland's founder, moved into the presidency 20 months ago, he brought some expansionist thinking with him. As vice president in charge of sales from 1936 to 1951 (with time out for a stint as steel expert on the War Production Board), he helped push yearly sales from $99 million to $519 million. As president, he turned his energy to improving efficiency, pushed Inland from eighth to seventh in the industry without adding a single open-hearth furnace...
...somewhat surprised to read in your Oct. 3 review of John Goffe's Legacy by George Woodbury that "Uncle Ody" was the last to bear the name of Goffe. "Uncle Ody" had a son, John Goffe, a grandson, George Washington Goffe, and a great-grandson, George Crosby Goffe. The latter was my father. I have been bearing the name Goffe for some years now, as has my brother Frederick . . . I must protest the implication made in a magazine with your circulation that my brother and I are figments of our own imaginations...
...midst of the sale, 65-year-old President Louis de B. Moore retired after 44 years with the company. Into his place stepped Executive Vice President William Thompson Lusk, 54, great-grandson of Founder Tiffany. Lusk, born in Manhattan, went to Groton and Yale ('24), was coxswain on the Yale freshman crew and president of the dramatic society, once played daughter Goneril in King Lear. After college he started at Tiffany's as a clerk, worked his way steadily up to executive vice president...
Thieriot, who will eventually fall heir to one-sixth of the Chronicle's stock, is a grandson of the Chronicle's cofounder, Mike de Young. He grew up in San Francisco, graduated from Princeton ('36) and went to the Chronicle as a copy boy. He spent four years as reporter and rewrite man, then moved over to the business side, sold ads, ran circulation and negotiated labor contracts. After a wartime stint in the Navy, where he was a lieutenant commander, he came back as assistant business manager of the Chronicle. He opened and managed the paper...