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...Sumner T. Pike, 55-year-qld businessman and broker, who ran away from his Maine home, went to sea, sold oil industry equipment in Texas, joined Boston's Stone & Webster, later Wall Street's Case, Pomeroy & Co., served as a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He resigned from SEC last March with a note to Harry Truman: "I am getting stale...
...John S. Sumner, tireless peeper for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, clucked at current life & letters generally, but he was not downhearted. "The pendulum always swings wide from one side to another," said he. "The décolleté of the Directoire was followed by the pantalettes of the Victorian era." Had he noticed the latest bathing suits? He never visited the beach. "If they can swim better in them," he hazarded generously, "I suppose they are all right; but if they sink they have themselves to blame...
...Sumner L. Feldberg '45, 22, Netwon, Adams House, Government, Freshman hockey, House baseball...
When the Daily News was born in the summer of 1919, he was waiting to take more training for foreign service. City Editor Sumner Blossom, desperate for someone to man the city-desk telephones, argued Boss Clarke into letting his son fill in. Before long, young Clarke became picture editor of Manhattan's first "picture newspaper." He left for an eight-year stretch on the World, skipped back in 1930 before the World's end, stepped into his father's old job in 1939. Patterson turned him into a past master of the devious techniques of tabloid...
...think Wilson has done anything for literature and we don't think Sumner is doing anything for public morals. However, he has done something pretty big for Doubleday and Wilson...