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...Glasgow, Ruth Mehrtens, Robert Schulman. Los ANGELES: Ben Williamson, James Murray, John Allen, Lyn Kennedy. DETROIT: Fred Collins. ATLANTA: William Howland, Boyd McDonald. BOSTON: Jeff Wylie. DALLAS: William Johnson. HOUSTON: Willard C. Rappleye, Jr. DENVER: Ed Ogle, Charles Champlin. SAN FRANCISCO: Alfred Wright. SEATTLE: Dean Brelis. OTTAWA: Serrell Hillman Byron W. Riggan. MONTREAL: James R. Conant...
...London, Author Adolf Hitler did poorly on the auction block. His personal copy of Mein Kampf, found in the German chancellery at war's end, was offered by Owner Arthur Hillman for bids of $11,200 and up. After four calls and no takers, the auctioneer announced: "We can't let it go for any less. It will be scratched...
Gamble. The Triumph's triumph was strictly the work of Sir John Black. He had come to Standard in 1929 from Hillman where, at 34, he had already made a name for himself as managing director. Standard was deep in the red, and its production was down to 34 cars a week. To get the company out from under, Black gambled. He asked for little salary and no share in any profits until he had assured Standard stockholders a 6% return on their investment. Then he expected the company to pay him more money...
...maybe more" bidders. He said he picked LIFE because "I have observed that LIFE editors have presented other memoirs [Churchill, Duke of Windsor, General Omar Bradley] with great dignity and care." In writing the memoirs, which he says are more than half finished, Truman will be helped by William Hillman, former newsman (I.N.S., Mutual Broadcasting) and author of Mr. President, a collection of Truman papers and reminiscences published last year. Although Hillman and others will help him gather the material for his memoirs, Harry Truman says: "I am writing them myself...
This week at the annual director-stockholder meeting, Freeman Treasurer Alex L. Hillman, successful publisher (Pageant Homeland, People Today), announced his resignation because "it has been almost impossible for the past six months to run the magazine." With the board lined up against them, Editors Chamberlain Davis La Follette also resigned. Then the directors present unanimously brought back Henry Hazlitt as top editor. As soon as Hazlitt assembles a new staff he expects to recreate a Freeman with a quieter voice. Said he: "I want to put out a journal of opinion which will represent the older liberalism and that...