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Fimplaner. The man who told Sonja Henie she could be another Garbo was an ebullient Irish-American, Dennis Russell Scanlan of St. Paul, who ran, and runs today, a prosperous surgical-instruments business in Sweden and Manhattan. In 1920 Scanlan had set Norway on its ear by staging an Oslo show for Chicago Skater Bobby McLean that grossed $76,000. The Henies and Mr. Scanlan saw something attractive in each other. In 1935 they put their heads together over Sonja. The Henie filmplaner were simple. Sonja was to go out in a blaze of amateur glory in the 1936 Olympics...
...interest in upper New York's giant utility, Niagara Hudson Power Corp. (assets then $784,298,192). This deal elevated someone new to a dominant position in United: an extraordinary young banker named Floyd Carlisle, who has always been thought of as a "Morgan man," and is today the No. 1 U. S. utility magnate. Carlisle then ran and still runs the St. Regis Paper Co., which happened to own 4,070,000 shares of Niagara Hudson common. By an exchange of stock, United became the largest stockholder of Niagara Hudson and Mr. Carlisle's St. Regis Paper...
...estimated gross between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 a year. Heinz policy keeps it out of the trade association but it works closely with N. P. P. A. whose biggest members are Widlar Food Products (Standard Brands), Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby and Squire Dingee. Biggest pickle States today are Wisconsin and Michigan but the oldest is New York where Dutch burghers packed dills not many years after Henry Hudson debarked from the Half Moon...
...late great Booker T. Washington organized the National Negro Business League, there were two Negro banks. When N. N. B. A. was formed in 1926, eleven years after Booker Washington's death, there were 25. Depression I took its toll of Negro banks as of white banks. Today there are twelve active Negro banks and trust companies (with total capital of $1,000,000, assets of $10,000,000) besides 18 savings, loan, and real estate banks...
...Today slim, bald, horn-tufted with white wool like an Uncle Tom in business clothes, he has one son who is an African Methodist Episcopal bishop in Capetown, South Africa, another who is a physician, a daughter who is a St. Louis high-school teacher. His third son is a cashier in his father's bank, and another of his five daughters is a teller...