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Consolidated. William Roy Carney, owner of 3,825 shares in Prairie Pipe Line Co., last week brought suit against Consolidated Oil Corp., the big new combine formed by Harry Ford Sinclair to include his companies and the Prairie group, asking for its dissolution. Carney also asked for a receivership. Last week at the new company's first stockholders' meeting, Chairman Sinclair announced the company was ''in the black...
...ebullient young Publisher Roy Wilson Howard, whom he saw at Henry Latham Doherty's 62nd birthday party last week (see p. 42), experienced old Arthur Brisbane wrote in his Hearstpaper colyum: "He is the man, daring all for science, who grafted the dead New York Evening World onto the half-dead New York Evening Telegram and said to the world 'Now watch it run.' It doesn't exactly run, but when you consider everything, Mr. Howard has done well. All his friends hope that circulation will improve, and that New York merchants will change their minds...
Club members now abroad include Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews who sailed for inner Mongolia fortnight ago; Gene Lamb in Tibet; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey leading his "dude" expedition down the Amazon. Lincoln Ellsworth was last week preparing a 1932 flight with Bernt Bal-chen across Antarctica. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed from Manhattan last week for, it was said, a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini concerning another submarine trip toward the North Pole...
AMBER SATYR-Roy Flannagan-Doubleday, Doran...
Died. Lee B. Durstine, 80, father of famed Adman Roy Sarles Durstine of Manhattan; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Wooster, Ohio. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s "Million Dollar Club," of which he was a member, consists of agents who sell that amount or more of insurance in a year...