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...gold-leafed crown, which houses the world's largest supplier of heating and plumbing equipment, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. One of Manhattan's least-known tycoons is American Radiator's massive President and Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, 75, a grey-haired 225-pounder, whose life story reads like Horatio Alger. At 23 he started lugging a 50-lb., cast-iron radiator sample through the Midwest, presently became the world's No. i radiator salesman. Good-natured, paternalistic, Clarence Woolley has been with American Radiator for 46 years, has headed it for 36. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radiator Salesman | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...drugstore cowboy but a strapping 210-pounder born only 31 years ago on a Dakota County farm, Harold Stassen worked his way through the University of Minnesota Law School, for three years as a Pullman conductor. Aged 23, he was elected Dakota County attorney and has held that job ever since. Blue-eyed, ruddy, with a contagious smile and natural friendliness as strenuous as that of Kentucky's Happy Chandler, Stassen soon became a force among Minnesota's Young Republicans. This year he led their test of strength against the Old Republicans, easily overwhelmed Old Guarder Martin Nelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Drugstore Cowboy | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...Mellen, suffice it to say the 175-pounder was a standout all afternoon. "Magnificent" and "by far the best guard we have come up against" was his description by Ithacan coach Snavely after the game...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Varsity Line Great in Cornell Defeat --- Yardlings Lose | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...well in scrimmage. Tom Gardiner, a weighty six-footer, will see play Saturday. Along with Tom Broderick, he has been frequently used in the A lineup. Broderick, by the way, is the only squad member who can stand up to Miller as an equal. Broderick is a 217-pounder himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hope of Future Varsity Grid Teams Meets Test as Yardlings Face Exeter | 10/7/1938 | See Source »

With right guard Dave Glueck out of the impending Cornell cash due to injuries, Coach Dick Harlow announced last night that Bill Coleman, tall 185 pounder converted from blocking back, will start in the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOW PICKS ELEVEN TO FACE RED SATURDAY | 10/6/1938 | See Source »

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