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Said Publisher Samuel Emory Thomason to his visitor: 'I want you to know, Bertie, that we're going ahead with...
What Publisher Thomason was going ahead with was a plan to abandon the unprofitable Saturday edition of his evening tabloid and publish instead a Sunday edition. Why did he bother to talk it over with Publisher McCormick, with whose Sunday Tribune he would compete, and not with Publisher Homer Guck of Hearst's Herald & Examiner with which he would also compete? Because Publisher Thomason was for nine years vice president and general manager of the Tribune. On the walls of Publisher Thomason's office (in the old Market Street plant where the defunct Journal used to be published...
Labrador (see map) is a vast and draughty triangle nearly three times the size of Newfoundland. It contains many a lake. The eider duck and the hair seal are disappearing, but on the word of Medical Missionary Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, the country is infested with mice "of many varieties." A will-of-the-wisp to Labrador explorers and Labrador investors are the perennial stories of a great-unexploited gold field somewhere up the Hamilton River...
...University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...Wilfred Thomason Grenfell . . . LL.D...