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Died. Percy Procter, 83, brother of William A. and Harley Procter who with James Gamble founded the Cincinnati soap firm, uncle of its late Board Chairman William Cooper Procter; in Atlantic City. Connected for a time with the firm, Percy Procter left it to found Procter-Collier Advertising...
...yard free style swim Won by Peter E. Arioli, Jr. (H); second, Wace (B); third, Harley L. Stowell, Jr. (H). Time 2 min., 8 2-5 sec. (New Freshman record...
Boston remains conservative. Ten years ago Artists Harley Perkins, Charles Hovey Pepper and Carl G. Cutler started a minor revolt against what they called the "Museum [of Fine Arts ] School" which was then turning out replicas of John Singer Sargent. The revolt sagged. Today Boston's best artist concerned with the contemporary U. S. scene is Molly Luce, wife of Alan Burroughs. X-ray art researcher for Harvard's Fogg Museum...
...term notes. When the market crash caught him amidships, his creditors hemmed him in, charged him with mismanagement. Even his able right-hand man, Winfield ("Winnie") Sheehan, turned against him. When the smoke of battle cleared, William Fox had been beaten and ousted by a group headed by Utilitarian Harley Lyman Clarke of General Theatres Equipment Corp., Harold Leonard Halsey of Halsey, Stuart & Co., and John Edward Otterson of Electrical Research Products, Inc., subsidiary of A. T. & T. William Fox got $21,000,000 for his stock and a salary of $500,000 a year for five years. These tidy...
William Lever was the seventh child but first son of a Bolton wholesale grocer. He soon tired of gigging about the countryside selling groceries, decided to go into soap. Unlike Harley Procter who had a soap before he had a name,* William Lever had a registered name (Sunlight) before he had the soap. By 1888 he was breaking ground for Port Sunlight, the first of his countless adventures in "enlightened self-interest." The biggest was his Congo adventure into which, in his restless search for raw materials, he plunged in 1910. He acquired from Belgium millions of acres of palm...