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Even more heretical than Soapman Fels is Soapman J. Crate Larkin, who is really a soapman only by tradition. Larkin Co. was founded as a soap works in 1875, branched from wholesaling into mail-order distribution, branched again into distribution through women & children who wanted to earn a few premiums. After 20 years, Larkin again branched, this time into chain stores. Today it has 100 stores in the Buffalo territory, another group of 75 around Peoria, Ill. Owned by the socialite Larkin family, it publishes no figures...
...Soapman Fels' late brother Joseph Fels was also a social-minded Single Taxer, who lived part of each year in London. A British committee of charitarians once asked him for contributions to alleviate conditions in London's slums, where, he was informed, children were dying like flies. Joseph Fels refused on the ground that charity solved no problems. Declaring that something fundamental had to be done, he made this counter proposal: "I'll give ?10,000 to pay for the removal of these dead children to the lawns of the House of Parliament...
...were du Pont's President Lammot du Pont; Atwater Kent's A. At water Kent; W. A. Sheaffer Pen's W. A. Sheaffer; Kohler Co.'s Walter J. Kohler; Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden; Adman Bruce Barton; Camelman S. Clay Williams; Kodakman William G. Stuber; Soapman Richard R. Deupree: Woolman Lionel J. Noah; President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; President Ray Wantz of Rockford (Ill.) Fibre Container Co. About the only notable business figures absent were Brooklyn's poultry-dealing Brothers Schechter, who upset NRA, and that embattled Manhattan jeweler, Norman C. Norman...
...three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record. Steersman Colgate, son of the late Soapman Gilbert Colgate, learned bob-sled driving in Europe. Closest to the Colgate team was the Adirondack Bobsled Club team, piloted by Donna Fox. On its last run the Fox sled, with "knee action'' runners made of an aluminum alloy, jumped the track just below Whiteface, landed safely on the roadway...
...member of the New York Bar, married (to a daughter of Soapman Sidney Morse Colgate), Eddie Eagan has done no fighting since 1928. Last winter he was a member of the winning four-man U. S. bobsled team in the Winter Olympic Games. Fighting for Fun, a blow-by-blow biography of a unique career, appeared serially in the Saturday Evening Post...