Word: slocum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William H. Slocum...
...slow. President-Publisher Robert McLean is also president of the Associated Press. Lank, sandy, shy, he gives editors suggestions and a free hand. His brother, William L. Jr., vice president, looks after the money and the newsprint problem, has his hands full of both. Massive, gregarious Richard W. Slocum became general manager six years ago, has worked steadily against the Bulletin's antiquity, toward a fresh approach in civic matters. Dwight S. Perrin, managing editor since 1939, went to the Bulletin after 13 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His assistant is chain-smoking George S. Seltzer...
...BONES - Percival Wilde -Random House ($2). The incineration of an eremitical pulpwriter in his rural Connecticut retreat causes the convocation of an amazing coroner's jury. The testimony presented, the diary of one juror with an unfortunate flair for amateur detection, and the sly sleuthing of Coroner Slocum make up the year's most intelligently hilarious mystery yarn...
...Helen Slocum's husband Lawrence delivered new cars on a haul-away trailer out of Detroit ten years ago, and business was terrible. One day she "read in the paper about some boat races, and got to wondering how they hauled these boats around." Later she heard that Yachtsman Russell A. Alger Jr. was going to take 13 new sloops from Detroit to Charlevoix, Mich., asked...
Setting out to "get acquainted with all the boat people," Mrs. Slocum landed bigger & bigger jobs. Now her Boat Transit Co. has 23 tractors and trailers, some of special sizes. Her business came not only from boatbuilders like Chris-Craft at Algonac, but from private yachtsmen who wanted to sail into strange inland waters, have their boats trucked home. Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself. Husband Lawrence does...