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...with minutes of meetings and obscure scientific tracts. But when an inventor named Alexander Graham Bell took over as the society's president in 1898, he decided that it needed a full-time editor and a broader appeal. A year later he found the right man: Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, a 23-year-old, ninth-generation New Englander. Gilbert Grosvenor married Bell's daughter, ran and built the Magazine for the next 55 years, and left his son to take over after he retired...
Bare-Breasted Boldness. With Bell's approval, Editor Grosvenor drew a bead on the world's armchair explorers. In the name of geography he exposed the female breast, printed a 1903 study of two tawny Tagbanua belles eclipsed only to the waist by a stand of Philippine rice. Such displays became Geographic fixtures. He expanded geographical boundaries to embrace first-person travelogues from Tahiti, Siberia and the Yukon, kite construction (they were Bell's kites), the sex life of the aborigines, and skin tattoos. In 1905 he came up to a deadline with an eleven-page hole...
...ranks of space engineers, e.g., Hugh Dryden and Heinz Haber, remapped the firmament in its monumental Sky Atlas (price: about $1,200), even peddled (for $2) a Sputnik-tracing kit for the edification of backyard satellite hunters. But it remains solidly indentured to the principles laid down by Gilbert Grosvenor years ago, still segregates advertising and editorial copy, runs no liquor, tobacco or real-estate ads, hustles no lagging subscriber, still refuses to say anything controversial or unkind of any individual, race, country or hemisphere. "I was always taught not to criticize other people," said Gilbert Grosvenor...
...share, but not until after the station had sold the Teamsters at least $165,000 worth of service from 1950 to 1955). Near by are the two parking lots Beck bought for $28,000 and sold to the Teamsters for $135,000. Looming over the entire area is the Grosvenor House apartment-hotel that Beck and friends built (with U.S. Government financing...
...years before Robertson's purchase, Killarney had been owned by the Earls of Kenmare, who had jealously guarded the natural beauty made famous by poet, musician and tourist. Then two months ago, after the last Earl had died, his heir, Mrs. Beatrice Grosvenor, was forced to put 8,500 acres of the 9,000-acre estate up for sale so that she could pay off a ?70,000 ($196,000) inheritance tax. But she could find no buyer. Irishmen in Dublin, afraid that Killarney would fall into unsympathetic hands, started a fund-raising campaign, could raise only...