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...Winfield Sheehan will again take charge of Fox Film productions when his leave of absence ends in about a month. Mr. Sheehan's plans had been a matter of conjecture. Longtime associate (since 1914) of William Fox, he sided with the company's bankers when Mr. Fox was ousted, was said to have suffered a sudden breakdown late last year. Last week's news followed Fox President Edward Richmond Tinker's first official Hollywood inspection...
Much talk centred on Fox Film Corp. People wondered when the vacation of Vice President and General Manager Winfield R. Sheehan would end, if at all. Edward Richmond Tinker who suddenly became president of Fox last November after a long career as a banker with Chase National, left Manhattan for his first official visit to Hollywood. Certain contract cancellations on his part caused much bitter comment on the lots. Undertone to all Fox gossip was the story that William Fox will again obtain control of his company...
Class of 1933: Sidney Cohen, of Lynn; Henry Caraway Hatfield, of Evanston, Illinois; Winfield Adelbert Huppuch, of Glens Falls, New York; Richard Inglis, Jr., of South Euclid, Ohio; Knight Warner McMahan, of Elora, Illinois; Peter Shuebruk; of Cohasset; Angus Ellis Taylor, of Pomona, California; Bert Arthur Winter, of East Cleveland, Ohio...
...late Frank Winfield Woolworth might well have looked back with pride upon the 30-year history of his store chain. From a single unit in Lancaster, Pa., Woolworth stores had multiplied until in that year they numbered 590. Sales had grown to the startling total of $50,000,000 a year. And with possible sites for stores all over the U. S. Mr. Woolworth might well have faced the future with a justified smugness. Yet in 1909 Mr. Woolworth, a devoted worshipper of Napoleon, showed brilliant commercial strategy by opening a store in Liverpool. F. W. Woolworth...
Died. James Paul Donahue, 45, Manhattan stockbroker, famed roulette player, husband of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue who with Mrs. Helena W. McCann and Barbara Hutton inherited the estate (some $51,000,000) of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth (5¢ & 10¢ stores); of acute uremia following an attempt at suicide with bichloride of mercury; in Manhattan...