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Last week 39-year-old Reporter Presbrey was good for two breaks in a row. With his wife, he was having a midnight snack at a restaurant south of the Twin Cities when three gunmen walked in and robbed the cash register of $1,700. Reporter Presbrey ran for the phone as the last bandit went out the door. He had the city desk on the wire in time to catch the final edition...
...Paul Presbrey, a small, hard-eyed police reporter who covers St. Paul for the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune, is too nervous to sleep more than four or five hours a night; frequently he climbs out of bed at 3 or 4 a.m. to prowl St. Paul in search of news. With his luck, aggressiveness and insatiable curiosity, Presbrey regularly beats the ears off his rivals on fast-breaking stories...
Died. Frank Presbrey, 81, longtime Manhattan adman, onetime (1894-96) publisher of The Forum under the late Walter Hines Page; of a cardiac ailment; in Greenwich, Conn. For the Hamburg-American Line in 1897 he originated the steamship pleasure cruise...
Responsible for the details of the tombstone show was grey-haired, convivial Designer Ernest Leland of Manhattan's swank Presbrey-Leland Studios. He is a self-taught draughtsman, whose forebears for generations have been tombstone-makers. Salesmen know that he has embellished more graves than any other single individual in the industry. From his drawing board came one of the most expensive tombs ever erected in the U. S., the $300,000 William Rockefeller Mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. He is responsible for the Back-to-the-Epitaph movement now stirring the industry...
...there are more than ten times that number of gravestone companies in the U. S. They range from the little fellow on the corner lot who buys his stock readymade, to such potent concerns as Charles G. Blake Co. of Chicago who built the $100,000 Gary mausoleum, and Presbrey-Leland Studios Inc. of Manhattan who erected the $300,000 William Rockefeller mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. Most big firms do their work on contract, employ their own designers. Architect Raymond Mathewson Hood who died last week (see p. 28) once worked for Presbrey-Leland. The bigger firms...