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...Professor Collip, what? Possibly the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He was one of the co-discoverers, with Professor Frederick Grant Banting of the University of Toronto of insulin, another hormone. And Professor Banting received with his colleague John James Rickard Macleod the 1923 Nobel Prize for Medicine...
Seventy-five years ago Marshall Field founded in Chicago the store that bears his name. Now, in Seattle, the $12,000,000-a-year Frederick A. Nelson store is owned by Marshall Field & Co. The new $25,000,000 Merchandise Mart building in Chicago is Marshall Field owned, as is Chicago's Davis Department Store. Marshall Field has retail branches around Chicago, a wholesale branch in Manhattan, 25 mills and many factories scattered throughout the country. Yet it is none of these things that has been Chicago's pride, but rather the claim to being the world...
Because Marshall Field & Co. has always been a closed corporation, its retail business has largely been a matter of estimate, but gross sales (wholesale and retail) amounted last year to slightly more than $175,000,000. But last week Marshall Field & Co., following the lead of many another closed corporation, decided to let a portion of its stock pass to the public. Of 2,000,000 shares authorized, 1,400,000 are to be outstanding of which 540,000 were offered at $50 last week by Field, Glore & Co. and Lee, Higginson & Co. The remainder will be exchanged for present...
...Founder, to the deal. Born in 1893, Field III has been a soldier, newspaper reporter, bondsalesman, but aside from being a trustee of the estate, has had no hand in the management of the store. Nine years ago he took part in the formation of Marshall Field, Glore, Ward & Co., now Field, Glore & Co., potent Chicago banking house, with an office also in New York. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he spends most of his time far from Chicago. A great love of horses made him join the cavalry during the War, and enabled him to become a director...
...married son, a married daughter. Scot Simpson lives not south but north of Chicago, in the fashionable and rich suburb of Glencoe where he has an estate on which his favorite diversion, un-traditionally, is tennis. He is by far the largest individual stockholder in Marshall Field & Co...