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...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...
...Francisco Golden Gate Fair: Mrs. Philip Knight Wrigley in a $5,000 trailer; egg-bald Cinema Comedian Guy Kibbee; Collier's Editor William Ludlow Chenery; one J. J. Jeejeeboy...
...World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis: a 2 min. and 20 sec. fight in defense of his title; knocking out grim, 36-year-old Jack Roper, a Hollywood electrician who was considered a boxing has-been ten years ago; before 25,000 fight fans; at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles. Challenger Roper, 12-to-1 underdog, admitting it was the first break he ever got, received 10% of the nearly $100,000 gate...
...seven: Columbia Conserve Co.: Nunn-Bush Shoe Co.; Welsh Co. (St. Louis baby carriage manufacturer): Berkshire Knitting Mills; Northwest Metal Products Co.: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.; Western States Envelope...