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Braintruster Rexford Guy Tugwell spent half an hour skipping stones at Edenton, N. C., remarked: "If a fellow could do this every day, he could soon forget Frank Kent and Dave Lawrence...
...Atwater Kent radios originated one day after the War when Mr. Kent received an order for 10,000 headsets. Suddenly realizing that his plant was virtually ready to turn out complete radios instead of certain parts for other companies, he built a set by hand in his attic. Upshot was that for the next few years Atwater Kent was the fastest-selling radio on the market. Mr. Kent contributed little to radio science. Indeed, in 1927 he settled a whopping suit brought by Radio Corp. of America for patent infringement. What he did give the industry was mass production...
Meantime Mr. Kent did not neglect his social life. In 1906 he married a Philadelphia socialite named Mabel Lucas, who is a good friend of old Mrs. Edward Townsend Stotesbury. For years the Kents have been going to Bar Harbor every summer, to Palm Beach every winter. Kent yachts ply all the waters from Maine to Florida. The Kent garages must be big enough to hold a score of cars, for Mr. Kent dislikes driving the same car two days in succession. He used to buy them second hand, tinker them himself...
Philadelphia is still clucking over the days when Mr. Kent, Clarence Henry Geist (United Gas Improvement) and the late John T. Dorrance (Campbell Soup) had a baseball team of marriageable daughters between them. In the competitive spending which the launching of these nine young women entailed, the Dorrance triumph was a "Jungle Ball" in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford hotel, where the ballroom was realistically decorated with coconut palms, tanks of tropical fish, a menagerie of monkeys, apes, bears, snakes and hundreds of birds singing in cages hung from the ceiling. Utilitarian Geist's big play was a party...
Suave, affable, approachable but highly individualistic, A. Atwater Kent thinks the New Deal is a dreadful blight. Some observers believed that his decision to close down last week originated in his dislike of doing business under the Roosevelt Administration. A more logical explanation was that Mr. Kent was simply tired of the radio industry. If he does not begin manufacturing something else, he can settle down for good to enjoy what he once called "the simple life, on a grand scale...