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...ebullient young Publisher Roy Wilson Howard, whom he saw at Henry Latham Doherty's 62nd birthday party last week (see p. 42), experienced old Arthur Brisbane wrote in his Hearstpaper colyum: "He is the man, daring all for science, who grafted the dead New York Evening World onto the half-dead New York Evening Telegram and said to the world 'Now watch it run.' It doesn't exactly run, but when you consider everything, Mr. Howard has done well. All his friends hope that circulation will improve, and that New York merchants will change their minds...
...name of Helen Lee Eames, step-daughter of Oilman Henry Latham Doherty, was widely publicized last year at the time of her lavish debut in Washington (TIME. Jan. 5, 1931). The N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency sent out publicity stating that Miss Doherty had conceived and executed the idea of decorating automobiles with hand-painted silhouets and giving them away to friends. It was said she "enlisted the assistance of Mrs. Natalie Macdonald Hall, a New York artist, in the work of painting and decorating the cars." Last week Artist Hall sued Miss Eames's mother, Mrs. Grace...
...Some onetime newsboys: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Roy Wilson Howard, Henry Latham Doherty, John Haydock Carroll, Thomas Alva Edison, William Wrigley Jr., Adolph Simon Ochs, Edward William...
...retired naval officers who contribute $30,000 per year to propagate the Big Navy idea from headquarters in Washington. Mr. Gardiner is pleased when his friends call him "The Admiral." Boston-born, he worked as a chemist, got into electrical engineering, became an associate partner of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty, made enough money to retire to a comfortable home on Manhattan's East 57th Street. Mrs. Gardiner is Mary Ruth McBurney, interior decorator...
When the National Petroleum Association* convened in Atlantic City last week one of the principal speakers was sharp-bearded Henry Latham Doherty, generalissimo of Cities Service Co. He scolded the oil industry for having branched into unrelated lines, said proper planning would have carried petroleum companies through the Depression. Some of his listeners marveled to hear such talk from Tycoon Doherty for if ever a company had diversified interests it is Cities Service Co. Besides being a complete oil organization, from gusher to fuel tank, it also controls natural and manufactured gas companies, power companies, street car lines...