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...large apartment. When visiting Manhattan he lives expensively in a suite at the WaldorfAstoria. Over the U. S. sweeps the Kingdom of Cord: at Camden, his $15,000,000 New York Shipbuilding Corp.: in Kalamazoo, his $4,500,000 Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., largest in the U. S.; in Williamsport. Pa., his Lycoming Manufacturing Co. said to be the largest motor-builders in the world; in Wayne, Mich., his Stinson Aircraft Corp.. biggest U. S. builders of cabin airplanes; in Cleveland his Smith Controllable Pitch Propeller Co.; and in Auburn, Ind., the great automobile plant where Errett Lobban Cord...
SAMUEL H. HUMES Williamsport...
...five whose suits were settled out of court in 1928 for $10,000 each plus small annuities. Died, George Benjamin Luks, 66, painter, last of the famed Luks-Robert Henri-George Bellows triumvirate; in a midtown Manhattan hallway, where a policeman found his body; of coronary sclerosis. In Williamsport, Pa. he declared himself an artist at the age of 9, later began decorating safes, bandwagons, grocery stores when he was not boxing, wrestling, carousing. A roistering Rabelaisian to the last, he spat sulphuric scorn at highbrow art dealers, highbrow criticism, highbrow notions of technique, all living foreign artists and most...
...circulation is attracted by the "departments"-Women's Realm; Household Helps; Odd. Strange & Curious; Live Topics for Women & Children; Clever Little Stories; The Story Section. Also there are comics. Will Rogers, and a Sermon for the People written weekly for the past 26 years by Rev. Stephen Paulson of Williamsport...
...50th Anniversary Number included an extra supplement devoted to Grit, its history, its family. Peering from the front page was a large photograph of Founder-Publisher Lamade whose white hair is the only sign of his age?73. He was a $12-a-week printer on the Williamsport Daily Sun & Banner in 1882 when Grit first appeared as the Banner's Saturday afternoon edition. It made a poor start. Its publishers were about to scrap it when Printer Lamade got two other men to help him buy it, publish it separately in another shop. Grit Publishing Co. was founded with...