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...bore him one daughter, Mary Louise, who grew up to marry Editor Bok. and in turn to bear him two sons. Curtis & Gary. Less than six months after his first wife died in 1910, Publisher Curtis married his second cousin, Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury, widow of a Milwaukee lumberman. She died a year ago. This second marriage was childless, but "Cousin Kate" already had three daughters, one of whom married John Charles Martin...
...election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been on the R. F. C. board since its inception (February 1932), has acted as chairman in rotation with the other three active members for two months. He has seen R. F. C. loan resources rise...
...Examiner. She is related to Publisher Hearst, was his mother's constant companion for years. On the ChronicL- Mildred Brown is assisted by Mrs. Oscar Sutro Jr. of the sugar-&-mining Sutros. Nearest to a dictator is Agnes Duff Fenwick of the Scripps-Howard News, divorced wife of Lumberman Hugh Fenwick. Los Angeles looks to Mrs. Juana Neal Levy of the Times for social guidance. Hearst's Examiner has "Cholly Angelo" (Mrs. Jean Loughborough) and gives prominent bylines to Princess Marie de Bourbon, cousin of Spain's Alfonso. Sh" tells most of her information to Mrs. Loughborough...
...presidency of a tax-supported university is always sensitive to political change. So found Dr. Henry Suzzallo when he was president of the University of Washington. Politically adroit, able at money-raising, careful to dine with the right people, he nonetheless erred by snubbing a Washington lumberman named Roland H. Hartley. In 1926 Dr. Suzzallo lost his job; Hartley had become Governor and got even. Under Dr. Suzzallo the University had grown, but grown expensive. Under Governor Hartley and the University's next president, Matthew Lyle Spencer, the University experienced sharp economies, a re-organization last summer (TIME...
Foster son of William Hoover Yawkey, Detroit lumberman and onetime owner of the Detroit Tigers, Thomas Austin Yawkey inherited $4,000,000 from his mother, who died when he was 15. Last month, on his 30th birthday, he got almost as much from the estate of his foster father who died in 1919. To help him run his team as vice president and general manager, Owner Yawkey chose Eddie Collins, famed second baseman and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics. They planned to retain Marty McManus who managed the Red Sox ably for the last half of the 1932 season...