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...Prophet. Procter & Gamble (Ivory) was an early experimenter with the guaranteed work year and employe representation on the board of directors. Last week two other household soap names made social news. One was Samuel Simeon Fels, scholarly septuagenarian maker of Fels Naptha. The other was J. (for James) Crate Larkin, vice president of Buffalo's Larkin Co., Inc., makers of the soap U. S. children sell their parents' friends for the sake of Larkin premiums...
Even more heretical than Soapman Fels is Soapman J. Crate Larkin, who is really a soapman only by tradition. Larkin Co. was founded as a soap works in 1875, branched from wholesaling into mail-order distribution, branched again into distribution through women & children who wanted to earn a few premiums. After 20 years, Larkin again branched, this time into chain stores. Today it has 100 stores in the Buffalo territory, another group of 75 around Peoria, Ill. Owned by the socialite Larkin family, it publishes no figures...
Three sons and six grandsons of the founder are in the business, chief executive being John Durant Larkin Jr. His son, Vice President J. Crate Larkin, is a blue-eyed six-footer of 33. A Williams graduate (Class of 1923) he, too, has written a book, From Debts to Prosperity, is an ardent disciple of Britain's Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, high priest of Social Credit. Last week after experimental application of the Douglas theories in his own office, Mr. Larkin announced...
Virginian's board chairman is Adrian Hoffman Larkin, executor of the Rogers' estate. Active head is President Carl Bucholtz, a heavy, thick-set baldish bachelor who makes his home in Norfolk's old Monticello Hotel. A graduate of Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific and Erie, he often eats perched on a stool in the hotel's coffee shop, is rated a good judge of fine whiskeys, has never been photographed, wastebaskets all inquiries from Who's Who, which does not list...
...Johnny England, Crimson goalie, managed to ward off Bulldog attackers with great difficulty. The summary: HARVARD YALE England, g. g., Blake Stent, Holcombe, l.f.b. r.f.b., Ward, Orth Robinson, r.f.b. l.f.b., Murray (Capt.), Belin Vincent, Russell, l.h.b. r.h.b., Upton, Bronson Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Badman, Smith Roosevelt, Seeman, r.h.b. l.h.b., Brill, Larkin Wood, l.o.f. r.o.f., Coerr, Jennings Stork, (Capt.). Kelley, l.i.f. r.i.f. Pond Grover, c.f. c.f., Badger Clos, Motley, r.i.f. l.i.f., Lasell Manheimer, Willetts, r.o.f. l.o.f., Levine...