Word: myrick
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...inde pendent to try to change his style. Some time before he married his wife, Harmony, he decided that rather than "starve on dissonances'' he would go into the insurance business. He worked first as a clerk at Mutual Life, later helped found the firm of Ives & Myrick, which by the time of his retirement in 1930 was the largest insurance agency in the nation. Ives saw no conflict between the life of a businessman and the life of a composer: "The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. You cannot set an art off in a corner...
Aside from his own success, Myrick has pioneered some important changes in the insurance business. In 1910 he helped found the first training school for agents, later initiated the concept of estate planning. He helped set up the American College of Life Underwriters, the degree-granting agency for life-insurance salesmen, and has served as the college's board chairman for the past 20 years...
Meet the Queen. Julian Myrick started out in the insurance business as a $25-a-week applications clerk in 1898, soon struck up a friendship with another clerk, an athlete, organist and composer from Yale named Charles Ives. In 1907 they established their own office, soon were selling nearly $2,000,000 a year...
...after-hours Myrick and Ives achieved distinction in other fields as well. Ives wrote atonal, craggy symphonies and tone poems full of early American nostalgia (Three Places in New England, The Concord Sonata, Symphony No. 3) which won him a Pulitzer Prize and recognition as one of the leading U.S. composers. Says Myrick: "He always said his business helped his music." Myrick became president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association in the early '20s, also headed the Davis Cup Committee whose teams won the cup six years in a row. Once when touring with the 1924 Olympic team, Myrick...
Consultation. At one time Myrick, who is married and has four daughters and a son, actually retired from the insurance business. In 1949 he stepped down from a vice-presidency of the Mutual of New York to help Herbert Hoover, an old friend, enlist public support for the Hoover Commission's recommendations for organizational changes in the Federal Government. When that job was finished, Myrick longed for something else to do, decided to go back to his old sales agency as a consultant. "But," says Myrick, "nobody consults you about insurance. You have to go out and consult them...