Word: merlin
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Ever since his beginnings in a Cedar Rapids parsonage, Merlin Hall Aylesworth has been a salesman. Out of University of Denver Law School, he exercised his powers of persuasion so effectively that he became an almost miraculous collector of bad bills for doctors. Soon he sold himself for the job of chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. In four years he was an executive of the Utah Power & Light Co. He sold electricity so suavely that in 1919 he was made managing director of National Electric Light Association, powerful utilities propaganda agency. In 1926 he stepped into the presidency...
...most widely exhibited photographs are, "Cook and Hen, Merlin," by Hugh G. Wagstaff, which received awards in Bolton and Manchester, England; and "Female Hen Harrier," by Niall Rankin, which shows a bird found only in Great Britain, in the Orkney Islands, and the outer Hebrides...
...Last week Mr. Howard acquired a new associate in lively Merlin Hall ("Deke") Aylesworth, who will leave the chairmanship of Radio-Keith-Orpheum March 1 to become a Scripps-Howard executive-without-portfolio...
...sudden attention from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, but when the din died Radio (underwriters of the debentures) had more than one-half the stock and over three-quarters of the debentures, an investment eventually carried on Radio's books at $15,000,000. In 1932 NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth became RKO president...
Injured when his automobile upset near Three Rivers, N. Mex., was Cattleman Robert Kleberg Jr., whose famed Santa Gertrudis ranch covers 1,250,000 acres, fronts on the Gulf of Mexico for 80 miles. Before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers at Rochester, N. Y., Board Chairman Merlin Hall Aylesworth of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. demanded higher cinema admission prices, declared: "The wasteful, injurious practice . . . of giving away one Grade A picture with one Grade B picture is like eating too much ice cream at one time." Stricken in Hollywood with bronchial pneumonia lay Cinemactress Norma Shearer, widow of famed...