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...largest U.S. producer of wallboard and similar wood products last week took over one of its biggest customers. In return for 81,250 shares of its own stock (current value: around $4,550,000) Masonite Corp. bought control of Marsh Wall Products, Inc. of Dover, Ohio, No. 1 finisher of Masonite wallboard. For 23-year-old Masonite, the deal will enable it to turn out finished products (doors, panels, etc.) for sale to the building trade. For Marsh Wall, it marked a new chapter in a happy saga of family enterprise...
Around the Tree. Marsh Wall Products, Inc., the fourth and largest of the family's companies, was started in 1930, almost ended when a fire razed its plant and equipment in 1935. Starting up again from scratch, the brothers now have a business that employs more than 300, grossed $6,000,000 this year. They sold their 80% interest in it (Marsh friends and dealers and Masonite officials own the rest) in line with the trend among family enterprises to consolidate with bigger corporations, thus make assets more liquid to pay such things as inheritance taxes...
...largest lecture room at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago was jammed one day last week. Every one of the 325 seats was taken; 150 people stood in the aisles. Word had gone around that Dr. Otto Warburg, 65, respectfully called "the Old Man," was going to make his first public report since he arrived from Germany last June...
...From China, from an anonymous Chinese Christian businessman, came a gift of $1,000,000 to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. This, the largest cash donation ever received by the board from a living donor, was to be used to build a settlement for retired Presbyterian missionaries. The gift, said its modest donor, was "in gratitude to God for my Christian education and life, and in appreciation of the service your missionaries have given China...
Just ten years ago, Marion Harper Jr., fresh from Yale, got a job as office boy at McCann-Erickson, Inc., one of the six largest U.S. advertising agencies. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), strapping (190 Ibs.) Harper was far from the outsider's idea of an advertising man. He was quiet and studious; he did not wear hand-painted ties, didn't smoke, showed not a single huckster characteristic...