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...Copyright: Burke and Van Heusen...
...lamp division to the shoes of Owen Young. Milwaukee-born, he got his engineering degree from Wisconsin (1921), his law degree (1924) at Fordham night school, while he clerked at Manhattan's patent law firm Pennie, Davis, Marvin & Edmonds. He got to G.E. via Van Heusen Products (collars) where he had handled some nasty patent problems, and to get there he foresightedly accepted an initial $7,500 a year salary...
Paramount has set this blistering badinage against a musicomedy background with a Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke score sung in a pleasing soprano by Strip-Teaser Mary Martin. In the plot, Mary is Fred's niece, Jack's sweetheart. Her efforts to achieve a reconciliation lend enough momentum to keep the story rolling to a climax where she and Jack wed, produce twins resembling the embattled comics...
Died. John Manning van Heusen, 63, inventor of the first semisoft collar; of pneumonia; in Scarsdale, N. Y. He patented his collar in 1913. marketed it in 1921 with Phillips Jones Co. which has sole manufacturing rights. In 1922 Inventor Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. successfully sued the bulk of the U. S. collar industry for infringement of patents. In the following year, however, Inventor Van Heusen was sued for $6,000,000 by John B. Bolton. For patents he had assigned to Van Heusen, Inventor Bolton later received $1,000,000. Other Van Heusen inventions: nonslip garters, nonslip...
...become highly concentrated. Whereas in 1910 there were 35 manufacturers, there now are but 10 concerns, whose annual business totals $25,000,000,* half in stiff collars, half in soft. Cluttt, Peabody's Arrow collars are the best sellers-$15,000,000 yearly. Then comes the Van Heusen brand-$5,000,000. George P. Ide Co. is third. (Ninety per cent of U. S. collars are made at Troy...