Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's jewels have been his sons-in-law. With the late Edward William Bok he built his great magazine publishing business (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, et al.). And for the last 17 years his dapper, alert step-son-in-law, John Charles Martin, has busied himself in the other Curtis publishing enterprise, that of gaining control of the Philadelphia newspaper field. Announced, last week, was the seventh addition to Curtis-Martin Newspapers Inc.?The Philadelphia Inquirer...
Unlike Brother-in-Law Bok, with whom he was not particularly intimate, Publisher Martin was not brought up in the publishing business. He married into it. In 1909 he took to wife Alice W. Pillsbury of Milwaukee, daughter of Publisher Curtis's second cousin. A year later, Publisher Curtis made that second cousin his second wife. Two years after, John Charles Martin left the machinery business to run Mr. Curtis's first newspaper, the Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...little direction from above, he has played a sharp game in Philadelphia journalism. Soon after the purchase of the Ledger (1913), the Evening Ledger was founded. Then the Evening Telegraph was merged with the Evening Ledger. Then the Ledger absorbed the North American and the Press. In 1925 Publisher Martin broke into the tabloid field by founding the Sim to compete with the News (MacFadden-operated), which had sprung up that year. The Sun failed two years ago. The only Curtis-Martin paper outside the home town is the New York Evening Post (bought in 1924), to which Publisher Martin...
...Patenotre, relict of a onetime French Ambassador to the U. S., whose son Raymond is a member of the French Chamber of Deputies. Mrs. Patenotre's desire to live near her son was given as a reason for her selling out, for a reputed $18,000,000, to Curtis-Martin...
Score--Yale 38, Harvard 14. Goals--Wenner 2, Farrell 2, Pierce 1, Horwitz 6, Booth 2, Patterson 1, Naury 2, Martin 1, Byer 1, Beane 2. Fouls--Rex 1, Burns 3, Horwitz 3, Booth 1, Patterson 1, Byer 1, Beane 1. Time--Two 20-minute periods. HARVARD YALE Wenner, Pattison, l.f. r.f., Booth, Gallagher Mahady, Baskerville, Farrell, r.f. l.f., Horwitz, Lindenberg Pierce, c. c., Patterson, Pennel Rex, Burns, l.g. r.g., Byer, Beane Nido, Farrell, Baskerville, Rauh, r.g. l.g., Naury, Martin, Beane...