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Elizabeth Coles, his wife, to whom he had been married for 25 years, died in 1927, leaving him childless. He married a widow with three children-Katherine Boyce Tupper, the daughter of a minister. He performed a soldier's between-wars chores, teaching in officers' schools, doing routine military housekeeping, and, wherever he happened to be, cultivating the vegetable gardens which were his hobby. In 1937 he was in command of the sth Infantry Brigade at desolate Vancouver Barracks, Wash., when three Russian aviators startled the world by flying from Europe to America over the North Pole. They...
Katherine Tupper Marshall, who wrote a book (Together; Annals of an Army Wife) about life with George Marshall, recalled that the flyers had nothing but their thick fur parkas to wear at receptions. Marshall ordered civilian suits for them and "they appeared, immaculate in dark business suits . . . delighted by the double-breasted cut of the coats...
...Tupperware Corp., of which he is president, general manager, treasurer, and sole stockholder, in 1942, but war postponed its almost unpromoted rise. With only one agency in New York, which he set up mainly as a distribution center, Tupper this year expects to gross over...
Along with the new material, which he calls simply Poly-T ("There have been too many bum articles called plastic"), Tupper has developed machinery to press it into 25 pastel-shaded houseware items ranging from poker chips (100 for $1.98) to double-walled ice-cube bowls ($4.98). Some of the bowls have close-fitting caps which, upon slight pressure, create a partial vacuum, form an airtight container. All of them can be squeezed to form a spout which disappears when the bowl is set down. A Massachusetts insane asylum found Tupperware an almost ideal replacement for its noisy, easily battered...
...farm boy in Harvard, Mass., Tupper found that he could make more money by buying and selling other people's vegetables than by raising his own. He developed his trading instinct into a small mail-order business featuring combination sales of toothbrushes, combs, etc., made enough to start manufacturing...