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...stock (three and a half shares of Magnin's for one of Bullock's), whereby Magnin shares will shortly disappear. Not so the name of Magnin-so long as either its 73-year-old president E. John Magnin or his 57-year-old brother, First Vice President Grover A. (who are also the company's largest stockholders), have anything to say about...
Johnny and Grover long ago learned to regard "Magnin" as a highly profitable name. Their mentor was their mother, peddler Isaac Magnin's wife Mary Ann, who founded the business with her own handiwork (children's and bridal clothes) in 1876, and took an intense matriarchal interest in it until she died at 95 last December...
...that starts with ". . . a business that will never know completion. . . ." But diminutive, 62-year-old "P. G." Winnett, now president and principal stockholder (to the extent of around 30%) turned the ideal into a merchandising fact. It was P. G. who started the Magnin merger talks, which he and Grover Magnin settled in less than an hour...
...Five wives of former Presidents are still living: Mrs. Thomas Jex Preston (the former Mrs. Grover Cleveland), 79, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, 85, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, 82, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson (his second wife), 71, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge...
WPBsters were shaken by Howard Hughes's ice-cold confidence. They closely scrutinized all the plans, were assured by Expert Grover Loening, WPB's aviation adviser, that the ship was far in advance of anything he had seen. WPB's eye warmed up. It decided not to cancel the Kaiser-Hughes contract - at least, not immediately. But WPB also made it plain that it intends to keep an eagle eye on the supership, may yet cancel the contract...