Word: samuel
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Besides bossing the biggest independent oil company in California, ruddy Samuel Mosher, 71, the chairman of Signal Oil & Gas Co., pursues some profitable sidelines. On a 4,500-acre ranch near Santa Barbara and on an estate in Australia, he raises cymbidium orchids for florists. His Signal Oil owns a 48% interest in the globe-girdling American President Lines, which it bought at a distress sale, and he is chairman of the Flying Tiger Line which he helped to bankroll when it began 18 years...
...Died. Samuel Sorenson Adams, 84, Danish-born founder (in 1909) and president of S. S. Adams Co. of Neptune, N.J., world's largest makers of sneezing powder, hidden buzzers, rubber lizards, squirting boutonnieres and other boffs, all of which he delighted in trying out on friends, relatives and casual acquaintances; of a heart attack; in, Asbury Park...
Fickle Readership. What probably spared the Mirror so long was that Berlin could not get the proper price. Several years ago the paper was offered to Publisher Samuel Newhouse, whose appetite for new "properties," as he calls them, is inexhaustible. Newhouse would not even bid on a paper that was losing $2,000,000 a year. The Mirror simply had nothing to sell that others were not selling better. TV had usurped its entertainment function. And even sex, that once dependable tabloid ware, was not so marketable any more. Contemporary fiction and the new girlie magazines did the job more...
...Died. Samuel Bayard Colgate, 65, president (1933-38) and chairman (1938-52) of Colgate-Palmolive Co., great-grandson of the toothpaste company's founder, who took over the top job when sales were sliding after a merger with soapmaker Palmolive-Peet n 1928, cut costs, and scrubbed up the business until, with profits on the rise, he was able to devote time to philanthropy, notably Colgate University, which changed its name in 1890 because of Colgate family endowments: of a heart attack: at his estate on Contentment Island, in Darien, Conn...
Died. Rosa Raisa, 70, Russian-born U.S. soprano who created the role of Turandot when Puccini's opera premiered at La Scala, reigned as a top American diva throughout the 1920s, when, backed by Utility King Samuel Insull and directed by Mary Garden, the Chicago Opera enjoyed international esteem; after a long illness; in Los Angeles...