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...Ovvned by Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...
...chief virtue of an examination proctor is that he sees without being seen, hears without being heard, and announces the passing nour without causing panic. If he thrusts himself too much in the public eye, he distracts the attention of those occupied with more serious affairs; if he retires too completely behind a pillar he tails to gather the information necessary for his theoretical report on "Some irregular methods of tilling blue books." It has been will said that the successful proctor approaches more nearly to the Golden Mean than any other College official...
Popular recognition and public gratitude to the officials in charge of examinations has never been wide the very nature of the office prevents such a possibility. But there is a kind of silent regard in the breasts of all for the proctor who recognizes his grave responsibilities to his examinees, and above all does not giggle upon first looking at the papers which in a minute or two he will distribute among anxious hands...
...share of Seaboard National Corp., the bank's security affiliate. Seaboard's President Chellis A. Austin continues as president of the merged bank; Equitable's President Arthur W. Loasby becomes Board Chairman. Said the official statement: "logical alliance . . . substantially multiply measure of service." RKO-Proctor. "I am going to get right after this thing," said, last winter newly-elected Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp.'s President Hiram Staunton Brown, onetime leather man (TIME, Dec. 10). Results of getting after it were last week evident with the Radio-Keith-Orpheum purchase of the F. F. Proctor theatre chain...
...retirement of Frederick Freeman Proctor, Manhattan lost its oldest vaudeville tycoon. In the early '90s, Mr. Proctor went into partnership with the late Charles Frohman, and from this agreement resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand...