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...have accepted are: John P. Armstrong, Francis G. Barnum, Thomas A. Boulger, Arthur Cantor, Edmund S. Childs, Jr., L. Blair Clark, Eugene V. Clark, William C. Coleman, Eric Cutler, Ralph H. Cutler, William H. Daughaday, James T. Devine, George A. Downing, Henry N. Ervin, John N. Fulham, Robert Fulton, Tudor Gardiner, Theodore L. Hazlett...
...William Tudor Gardiner, twice Governor of Maine and now head of Boston's Incorporated Investors, raised Nathaniel Drummond ("Nat") Moore to the presidency of his $10,000,000 Pacific Coast Co. (railroads, steamships, mines, cement factories), succeeding Thomas Arthur Davies, who resigned to handle personal interests. Grey-haired Nat Moore has worked for Pacific Coast for 40 years, knows his 1,000 employes by their first names...
...grandson, Henry Sturgis Dennison, is the present head of this family concern. A shrewd, eccentric Yankee, he is bald and sharp-featured, likes to tug at his eyebrows and play the violin, organ, piano; he also likes to fish and fly kites. When he built a $75,000 Tudor manor, he horrified the architect by refusing to have leaded windows. Said he: "I'm not going to have a view of 20 miles spoiled by tradition." Once, after he strained his shoulder chopping, a doctor arrived to find him standing in his living room clad only in khaki pants...
Announced Washington Tailor George Tudor after fitting William Orville Douglas, new Supreme Court Justice, for his judicial robes: "Justice Douglas has a nice figure . . . he was easy...
...published in Manhattan are some 20 designed for village consumption, to catch the local advertiser's dollar. These range from the snobbish, slick-paper hotel publications of Robert L. Johnson Magazines, Inc. (Waldorf's Promenade, Pierre's Pierrot, etc.) to such modest community sheets as the Tudor City View, London Terrace News, The (Greenwich) Villager. Columbus Circle has its Mid-towner, Radio City its Rockefeller Center Magazine. That...