Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Publisher Curtis took a great fancy to Stepson-in-law Martin, soon lifted him out of the Milwaukee machinery business to manage his Public Ledger. Young Mr. Martin made good. Eventually he was given charge of all Curtis newspapers. His life was insured for $6,500,000. He raised a family of five, in a house across the road from Lyndon, the Curtis estate in Wyncote. Pa. And he became known on the outside as the "crown prince" of the Curtis organization...
...within the family John Martin was far from being the "crown prince." Snowy-bearded Old Man Curtis was well-beloved by all his kith & kin but he could not get the Boks to share his enthusiasm for the Martins. His only child, Mrs. Bok, resented his marriage to ''Cousin Kate" Pillsbury so soon after her own mother's death. Her displeasure was inherited by her sons. In this family feud, polite and unobtrusive though it was. the Lorimers sided with the Boks against the Martins. For a long while the name of Mrs. Lorimer never appeared...
When Cyrus Curtis's will was opened a month ago. the public first realized what the family had long known-that Stepson-in-law Martin was not to succeed to the throne. His wife. Alice, was bequeathed $100,000 outright. But so far as the publishing property is concerned, there was no provision for a Martin or any other Pillsbury issue until the direct line of Boks should wither away. To Mary Louise Bok her father left his residences at Wyncote and at Camden, Me., his gorgeous yacht Lyndonia, the income from his Curtis stock, everything he owned-except...
...from door to door, went to Manhattan and sold advertising, returned to Philadelphia to work in the circulation department at a desk among rows & rows of others. Enthusiasm and aptitude grew apace. Last week Gary Bok, 28, found himself occupying his late grandfather's office in the Curtis-Martin newspaper offices. It may have been mere coincidence that shortly after Gary Bok moved in, Harry Baxter Nason Jr., assistant editor of the Ledger, was sent to take charge of the New York Evening Post for six months over the shoulder of Editor Julian Mason. Then he will recommend whether...