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...daughter of the publisher of the New York Daily News, at the age of 22. In 1928, a year later, they separated, were divorced last year. He continued steeplechasing, flying, helped develop swanky Arlington Park Race track, interests with which he did not allow his connection with the Merchandise Mart (Marshall Field's wholesale branch) gravely to interfere. Last winter, aged 26, he took to wife Ella de Treville Snelling of the Boston Snellings, a smart horsewoman and fancy ice-skater. She made him give up steeplechasing. Last week James Simpson, Jr. made known his new interest. Backed principally...
...Corwin was in our Chicago office a short time back and gave a sample of an imitation dogfight he had perfected for use in a future "Thriller." I swear to you that half the tenants of the world's largest Merchandise Mart came running, fully intending to witness the fight. Fully six or seven dogs of various breeds, ages and sizes were closely distinguishable in his imitation...
...justification for lifting the main mart of the founder, personable young President Herbert Pulitzer testified that the cash assets of the papers, $400,000, were only enough to continue publication for another 90 days. The papers had lost $3,000,000 in five years; worse, the losses had snowballed from $442,000 in 1926 to $1.900,000 last year. The publishers had trimmed, pinched, retrenched to no avail...
...Opening of Merchandise Mart, world's largest building; in Chicago...
...Opening of Merchandise Mart, world's largest building; in Chicago...