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...Said Revlon President Charles Revson: "1959 should be the largest year we ever had." National Biscuit Co. expects first-quarter earnings to be about the same as last year, but looks for "continued improvement" in sales and earnings for the rest of 1959; General Baking Co. and Hiram Walker distillers both reported increased quarterly profits...
Ebright started early and stayed late. At the crew-conscious University of Washington (class of 1917), he was a fine coxswain under the great Hiram Conibear, father of West Coast rowing, and developer of the upright stroke with short layback that became the trademark of West Coast crews, differentiating them from Eastern oarsmen, who took their style from the British. California picked Ebright in 1924 to raise the Golden Bears to Washington's lofty level. Results came quickly. In 1927, 1928 and 1929, California crews, newly tutored in the Conibear stroke by Ebright, left mighty Washington trailing in their...
...Died. Hiram Haney Parke, 85, art appraiser and auctioneer who in 1937 co-founded Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, which became the U.S.'s largest auction house, handling paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, stamps, etc.; in Mt. Airy, Pa. Parke brought down his hammer on some of the most grandiose sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures...
...board chairman and his mother president. But he still knows some rich people, and he still wants to make it on his own. Last week Publishers' Row was startled by the news that a major new publishing firm was being founded by Pat Knopf and two big bookmen-Hiram Haydn, 51, for the past three years editor in chief of Random House, and Simon Michael Bessie, 43, one of the top editors of Harper...
...Yonkers, N.Y. 18 Schantz, Peter '61 QB 18 5.11 174 Haddonfield, N.J. 20 Koze, Dick '59 RHB 21 5.10 170 Allentown, N.J. 24 Terpak, John '60 RHB 20 5.9 178 York, Pa. 26 Harding, Larry '61 RHB 19 5.10 175 Gloucester, Mass. 27 Rheinhart, Hiram '60 RHB 20 5.10 170 Ambler, Pa. 30 Sikarskie, Dave '59 FB 21 6.0 196 Petoskey, Mich. 33 Goodwin, Ed '61 FB 19 6.1 188 Millville, N.J. 34 Doelling, Fred '60 HB 19 5.11 173 Valparaiso, Ind. 39 Raser, Bill '59 HB 21 6.0 178 Hartsdale, N.Y. 41 Coffin, Dave...