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...Yaleman born' (in New Haven, 1871) and bred (graduated 1895), he married a New Haven girl, got his first job as editor of the New Haven Morning News. From there he went to the New York Evening Post, then joined the staff of McClure's (with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell) at the height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life...
Photo-History has a novel idea behind it. Editor-Publisher Richard Storrs Childs, a socialite young Yaleman, intends to devote 68 LIFE-sized pages each quarter to a thorough pictorial takeout of one current subject. Photo-History: I devoted itself to the Spanish Civil War. On its cover a squad of male & female Government Milicianos bang away across a valley of olive trees at their Rightist foes. Inside, the bloody story of the long, internecine struggle is graphically set forth in a series of montages of news-photographs, newspaper headlines, charts and maps. At 35?, 100,000 copies of Photo...
...Chicago's Charles Gates and Rufus Dawes last week joined the other trustees of their alma mater, Ohio's old Marietta College, to elect as president Rev. Harry Kelso Eversull, Yaleman, Republican, for twelve years minister of Cincinnati's big Walnut Hills Congregational Church...
...Yaleman Mason appeared to have been merely the tool of Yaleman Garland, who was known among his unsavory associates as "The Wizard." The first Garland wizardry was promotion of Automatic Signal Corp. to make his patented traffic light. Among the original investors were two du Fonts, Charles Michael Schwab, who served for a time as a director, and old Economist Fisher, who sank no less than $750,000 in the enterprise. Automatic Signal is still a going concern with Mr. Fisher trying to get his money back as board chairman...
...Yaleman Garland went to Pittsburgh's Shady Side Academy, but his financial progress ran roughly parallel to valuation placed on his patent, which he acquired for $500 in stock. By easy stages this pat ent was written up to $7,500, then to $1,000,000, again to $3,250,000 and finally to a good round $32,500,000. At that point Yaleman Garland left Automatic Signal to Professor Fisher, taking off for a land of pure corporate romance. This he populated with no less than 30 companies, the functions of which were even vaguer than their assets...