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Died. Grenville Kane, 89, last surviving founder of tony Tuxedo Park; in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. A Manhattan lawyer (later director of many railroads), he helped Tobacconist Pierre Lorillard III plan the 400's baronial super-suburb in 1881. Descended from early American landlords (the Irish O'Kanes), Kane was the oldest living alumnus of St. Paul's School, oldest member of New York's arch-Republican Union League Club...
...Lorillard Co. (Old Golds) has trip-hammered the claim that its cigarets contain less nicotine than others, ever since the Digest's tests a year ago showed this to be technically true. But the Digest now reports the FTC complaint that Old Gold's ballyhoo "carefully omits" mention of the fact that "the actual difference between the average amount of nicotine in an Old Gold and in two other brands was one-177,000th of an ounce. By switching to Old Golds, the addict who smokes 20 cigarets a day will subject his system to only one-24th...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Pierre Lorillard, 61, tobacco heir (Old Gold), last direct descendant of fortune-founding Pierre I; of a throat infection; at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Known as Pierre III, he was actually the sixth successive Pierre. A rangy, horse-fancying bachelor, he gave Tuxedo Park's thinning old guard a bad turn two years ago by proposing that the 58-year-old colony be opened to unregistered red-bloods. Snorted he: "What is blue blood anyway? Bah!" Died. Judson Churchill Welliver, 72, confidential secretary to Harding and Coolidge (1921-25); of cancer; in Philadelphia. He once said that...
...Philip Morris, P. Lorillard, Imperial Tobacco, British-American Tobacco and Universal Leaf Tobacco, together with 21 of their subsidiaries and twelve of their top officers...
Married. Ruth Hill Beard Lorillard, wealthy daughter of the late Empire-Builder James J. Hill, widow of Tobacco-man Pierre Lorillard; and Emile John Heidsieck of the champagne family; in Tuxedo Park...