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...memorial service to the late Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. in Chicago's smart St. Chrysostom's last month was graced with ushers from Wrigley Baseball Field and a carillonneur who sweetly ding-donged Aloha Oe, the gum man's favorite tune. Rev. John Crippen Evans, associate rector of fashionable St. Chrysostom's, eulogized Mr. Wrigley thus: "He was a boy at 70, and that is a real achievement. It is in that sort of attainment that the Christian pulpit is primarily interested, because the message of the pulpit is wholly concerned with life-life that...
Left By the late William Wrigley Jr., an estate of "at least $22,500,000"; to his widow Mrs. Ada E. Wrigley, his son Philip K., his daughter Mrs. Dorothy Wrigley Offield. In addition Philip Wrigley receives the Chicago Cubs baseball club. Not included in this accounting, largest ever filed in Illinois, are homes and properties in Arizona and California, including Catalina Island for which he once refused...
...ailment; in Chicago. Learned, eloquent, he had successfully represented Armour & Co. in defense of its acquisition of Morris & Co. which the U. S. Government contended was a violation of the Clayton Anti-trust Act. Among his other clients were Lumberman James Stanley Joyce (divorced by Peggy); the late William Wrigley Jr.'; Erlanger theatre interests; White Sox baseball club; the Chicago Tribune...
...when other manufacturers were still dubious about the power of advertising, Wrigley believed in it ("Tell 'em quick and tell 'em often"), spent millions to publicize his gum in practically every country of the globe. He lost several small fortunes in the process. But the fortune he finally attained was reputed to be close to $100,000,000. In 1917 he bought an interest (along with Jonathan Ogden Armour and Albert David Lasker) in the Chicago Cubs, the money-losing, badly run National League baseball club whose members lived so riotously that Wrigley virtually took on the role...
...Bill Wrigley was no slave to his desk. Once when he was asked to be in his office to sign an important contract, he cried, "The hell with it, the Giants are in town," hurried off to the ball park. He seldom missed a game. For several months of every year he went to Catalina Island, 12 mi. off the coast of California, which he had bought in 1919 for $2,000,000, and of which he had made a profitable business enterprise as well as a playground for himself and family. He owned the Biltmore Hotel at Phoenix...