Word: sherwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Kendall is 42, British-born. In 1907 he arrived in the U. S. to live, found he had enough money to carry him to St. Louis. There he went to work for Sherwin-Williams Co. (whose paint "covers the Globe";. From 1918 to 1923 he served as managing editor of Printers' Ink. In the spring of 1923 he decided the advertising world needed a new trade paper, founded Advertising Fortnightly, now called Advertising & Selling...
Mussolini of Manhattan is Frank Valentino, a gentle, industrious barber discovered last fortnight in an Amsterdam Avenue barber-shop by Louis Sherwin of the New York evening Post. So strongly does Barber Valentino feel about his resemblance to Il Duce that, should the occasion arise, he would become the Duce of barbery, form a new party (the White Shirt Barbers of America), transform the United States into the Great White Empire. Officers he would name are: President, Herbert Hoover ("on condition that he would always agree with me"); Mayor James John Walker, General Secretary of the White Army; Will Rogers...
...Others included: Sherwin-Williams Co., Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Cleveland Trust Co., Bank of Nova Scotia...
...with a kerosene troupe in Ohio, onetime Broadway idol, all his life a student of literature and music; of a heart attack after a hard game of tennis with his wife (Doris Kenyon Sills) at their home in Brentwood Heights near Los Angeles. Eight years ago Sills told Louis Sherwin, colyumist of the New York Evening Post, why he left philosophy for acting. Said he: "I went on the stage, you poor ape, because I thought it would give me more leisure to read. . . . What I would rather have done than anything else is write...
...withdrawal of Desjardines leaves as prominent competitors in the diving event, Walter Nappa of the University of Minnesota, Sherwin Combs of Syracuse, Tyson Lykes of M. I. T., Throndson of Stanford, Grandy of Pennsylvania, and Brooks of Princeton. At the twenty-fourth annual meet of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association in Carnegie Pool at Yale on Saturday Grandy placed first among the fancy divers and Brooks third...