Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting the Eye. Red Curtice was the heir apparent chiefly because of his spectacular job as boss at Buick. An Eaton Rapids (Mich.) boy, Curtice worked as a short-order cook, pushed a fruit cart, clerked in a woolen mill during high-school days. He worked his way through the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, and, after graduation in 1914 as an accountant, became a bookkeeper in G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division at Flint. Next year he became comptroller at 21, the youngest executive in the auto industry. After a hitch in the Army in World...
When he was helping Uncle Earl get elected governor of Louisiana last winter, 29-year-old Russell Long was not above pausing to speak enthusiastically about himself. He reminded Louisiana voters that he was Huey Long's oldest son, and strongly intimated that he was the true heir to the departed Kingfish's domain. This summer, when he set out to run for the U.S. Senate, he made the inference even plainer by continually speaking of "Me and Earl...
Manhattan Adman Arthur W. Collins, 45, who thought up Kaleidoscope, left the New York Sun two years ago to turn his idea into a magazine. From such backers as Motor Heir Jack F. Chrysler, Tobacco Heir Angier Biddle Duke and Milwaukeean Joseph E. Uihlein Jr. (Schlitz beer), he got more than $500,000. But until he lured buxom Martha Stout away from the editorship of Hearst's Junior Bazaar, Collins had no magazine...
...Rayon & Heir. It was obvious that Detroit's motor industry, biggest U.S. steel consumer, could use a mill of its own. But it had none until Humphrey put together Great Lakes Steel, later merged it into National Steel Corp. (27% Hanna-controlled). Long before the industry itself woke up to the fact, Humphrey discovered that Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corp. was revolutionizing the rayon industry by a continuous spinning process; Hanna bought control (17%). In 1945 he merged some of Hanna's coal interests into the mammoth new Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. (57% Hanna), and became boss...
Still looking ahead, Humphrey has picked his heir apparent. He is a big (6 ft.) Tennessean, Joseph H. Thompson, who joined Hanna eleven years ago after an Alger-like rise in banking (he was a vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. at 32). It was Joe Thompson, now 48, who thought up the Butler Brothers deal, and worked it out. Last week, when Humphrey and his syndicate formed Consumers Ore Co. to manage Butler, they made Thompson its president...