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Chicago's extraordinary Duke of Groceries annexed another province to his growing duchy. Canadian-born Nathan Cummings, who became a wholesale grocer only five years ago, when he took charge of Baltimore's ailing 72-year-old Kenny Co., is now one of the biggest wholesale grocers...
Reuben Youngdahl, son of a Swedish grocer, took unorthodox risks to perform this transformation. He first plunged the church deeper into debt in order to build in a better part of town. Then he set out after new members. He told his parishioners that he believes that church member ship is a "seven-day-a-week proposition"; if they wanted to belong, they would have to keep busy. They do-in thirteen women's and social clubs, four youth groups, two missionary societies, a day nursery...
Divorced. By Phyllis Haver Seeman, 46, bouncy, blonde bathing beauty of many an oldtime Mack Sennett custard-slinging silent film: William Seeman, 53, millionaire Manhattan wholesale grocer (White Rose brand); after 16 years of marriage; in Reno. Said she: "Bill has too much vitality. I'm getting older and want a little peace...
...rash of rumors and "reports." The dizziest to reach print was whelped by the unreliable "Free German Press Service," operated in Stockholm by Germans who call themselves "emigres" F.G.P.S.'s latest gasp: The "Hitler" who was in Berlin was not Hitler at all. It was a Plauen grocer named August Wilhelm Bartholdy, whose face was his misfortune: he looked like the Führer. Grocer Bartholdy, said F.G.P.S., had been carefully coached and combed, then sent to Berlin "to die on the barri cades. ... He will act as Hitler's trump card, creating a hero legend around...
Certain Expenses. Ralph Hannon, the League's treasurer and a Gresham grocer, naively put all this in a different light: "Why, the initiation fees go to Mr. Ritchie and Mr. McCroskey. They turn in expense accounts every month and get the balance for education...