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...Hulbert Taft, 62, educated (like Bob and Charlie) at Yale, is a kindly, tall, wizened man whose chief interests, aside from his paper, are horses and music. He uses endless columns in the Times-Star to promote better music for art-loving Cincinnati. His attitude toward employes is friendly, paternalistic. The Times-Star avoids an American Newspaper Guild contract by the simple device of paying better salaries, granting longer vacations than its rival, the Post...
...Howard Taft, bought the Times in 1879, and merged it next year with the Cincinnati Star. When he died in 1929, he left the Times-Star to his family. To each of his daughters, Mrs. Anna Louise Taft Semple and Mrs. Jane Taft Ingalls, went 40% of the stock. Hulbert Taft, his nephew, got 10%. Nephews Bob Taft, now candidate for President, and Charles Phelps Taft, a Cincinnati city councilman, each inherited...
...Tafts got together, decided to let Hulbert Taft manage his uncle's paper. Hulbert has run it ever since. Senator Bob, Councilman Charlie rarely interfere with Hulbert's policies...
...management of estates and trusts-especially those of Uncle Charles (d. 1929) and Aunt Annie (d. 1931). Largest asset of these: the Times-Star. To Bob and Charley, Uncle Charles left 1,000 shares each, appraised at $250,000; 2,000 shares to peppery, horse-loving Cousin Hulbert Taft, who runs the paper and is one of Bob's closest chums; and all the rest to daughters, Mrs. A. S. Ingalls of Cleveland, mother of David S. Ingalls, Bob's campaign manager and right bower; and to Mrs. Anna Louise Semple, wife of a Latin instructor at Cincinnati...
...MURDER THAT HAD EVERYTHING-Hulbert Footner-Harper ($2). Among thinly disguised members of Manhattan's café society, Lee Mapin, a snuff-taking amateur, solves the murder of a glamor girl's gigolo fiancé. Merits: humor and action. Fault: not too plausible...