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Like many a wife who suddenly finds herself a widow, tall and comely Margaret Chandler Porter had a tough choice. She could sell her husband's business, or try to run it-at the risk of running it into the ground. The business Claude Tillinghast Porter left behind when he died in 1946 was a wholesale paint firm (whose slogan was "The Painter's Friend"), the St. Louis outlet of his brother's thriving Porter Paint Co. of Louisville. Margaret Porter decided...
...happy. He wanted to own a ball club again. His offer for the New York Giants was refused. Someone suggested that he could buy the down-at-the-heels New York Yankees, weak sister of the American League, for $450,000. He did-in 1915, with a rich contractor, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, as partner. For the next five years the two optimists shopped for a player who could produce home runs, finally found him in Pitcher Babe Ruth, whom they bought from the Boston...
Died. Col. Tillinghast l'Hommedieu Huston, 71, formerly co-owner (with Col. Jacob Ruppert) of the New York Yankees baseball club; of heart disease; in Brunswick, Ga. In 1923 he sold his stock in the club to Col. Ruppert...
Dominant figure in the company for its first 50 years was George T. Lewis, a bewhiskered gentleman who has been called the "first great chemical enterpriser" of the U. S. Present president of "Salt" is Leonard Tillinghast Beale, great-nephew of George. Extremely conservative and retiring. President Beale. 56, has headed "Salt" since 1928. In "Salt's" annual report last week he announced a net of $1,769,407 for the year ended June 30. as against $1,285,645 for the previous twelve months. Dividends totaled...
...McNulty '36, of Roslindale; David H. Pabst '36, of Oconomowoe, Wisconsin; Lawrason Riggs, III '36, of New York City; David W. Schoonmaker '36, of Ashburnham; Alfred R. Shrigley, Jr. '36, of Hingham; George T. Skinner '36, of North Wales, Pennsylvania; Francis X. Sommer, Jr. '36, of Washington; Charles F. Tillinghast, Jr. ocC., of Providence, Rhode Island; Robert H. Waldinger '36, of Newton Center; Sidney S. Williston '37, of Northampton; and Dana C. Wrightington '36, of Lexington...