Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist Doctoroff made charcoal drawings of Candidates Hoover and Curtis. (He rates Mr. Hoover one of his dullest subjects.) Having painted such bigwigs as Chicago's Rabbi Louis Mann, Illinois's Governor Henry Homer, the late Banker Melvin Traylor, the late William Wrigley Jr., Railroader Daniel Willard, Artist Doctoroff tried his hand at the late Abraham Lincoln. This canvas so impressed Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune that he bought it for $500, replated and reprinted his Lincoln's Day rotogravure section to feature it. In 1936 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to spend...
Result is that in spite of a socialite board of directors (including John Hay Whitney, Marshall Field III, Philip K. Wrigley, Lessing Rosenwald), PM has a leftist aroma. Fortnight ago, when a sheet was passed around newspaper offices, accusing various members of his staff by name of being Communists or Communist-sympathizers, Publisher Ingersoll published the charges, invited FBI to investigate...
Owner P. K. Wrigley of the Cubs -still hopeful of getting some return on his quarter-of-a-million-dollar investment -sent Dean back to the Texas League un der option (subject to 24-hour recall) and sent a personal tutor along to give him pointers on sidearm pitching. But few fans expect ever again to see Wrigley's white elephant in a Cub uniform...
...roll call of his paper's stockholders reads like a list of Dun & Bradstreet's AA ratings. Some of them: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; Marshall Field III; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman; Columnist Dorothy Thompson...
...cigaret, because he does not smoke and his vast fandom knows it. But he gum-chews like a kraut cutter. So last Sunday night Gene Autry went to work at $1,000 a week on a new half-hour radio show over CBS for Double Mint gum, replacing Wrigley's Gateway to Hollywood series of last year. First time out on radio's Melody Ranch, Gene lassoed the folks with I'm ridin' the range all day, Poundin' the plains all day Ridin' until my bones are weary . . . Ridin' my life away...