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...Manhattan's best-known buildings is the neo-Gothic tower of funereal black brick, topped by a gold-leafed crown, which houses the world's largest supplier of heating and plumbing equipment, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. One of Manhattan's least-known tycoons is American Radiator's massive President and Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, 75, a grey-haired 225-pounder, whose life story reads like Horatio Alger. At 23 he started lugging a 50-lb., cast-iron radiator sample through the Midwest, presently became the world's No. i radiator salesman. Good...
...amazed staff nearly stopped work on the first edition. This notice that one of the most eminent, though least-known, careers in U. S. journalism had ended brought gloom to the office in which Oliver Kirby Bovard had spent 40 of his 66 years. For 28 of those years he had been managing editor, respected, feared, idolized by newspapermen whose bylines he made famous...
...until fame and boomtime stage salaries went to Gallagher's head. He dissipated fortune and health, died almost penniless. Shean preserved his equilibrium and his money, played on Broadway in Light Wines and Beer, Music in the Air, returned to, Hollywood in 1934 as a cinema character actor. Least-known fact about him is that he is an uncle of the comic Marx Brothers...
...woman owner for the first time in Derby history.* Mid-Day Sun is one of the two horses in the Hampshire stables of Mrs. Lettice Mary Talbot Miller, a 28-year-old brunette who inherited a $2,500,000 silk fortune from her great-uncle. About the least-known of all British racing owners, she seldom frequents race tracks, never bets a shilling. Mid-Day Sun, bought two years ago with Mrs. Miller's mother putting up half the purchase money, is her fourth horse...
Newest, most pedantic-looking and least-known of the Landon "researchers" is Fred Donald Enfield, thin-faced, bespectacled Los Angeles lawyer and onetime special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General. Disclaiming any specialty, Lawyer Enfield calls himself a Landon "research assistant," publicly airs his opinions only to the extent of letting it be known that he is against the New Deal...