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...tween editions, been replaced by order of James's son & successor. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 23. Year later the Record changed hands, dropped into stodgy conservatism, lost circulation and advertising. In January 1935 it was bought by E. Manchester Boddy (pronounced Boady). Twelve years ago slight, dapper, pencil-mustached. Manchester Boddy, a gassed and wounded A. E. F. lieutenant, was organizing the Mexican Year Book Publishing Co. He saw his chance to step up in the world when the spectacular publishing ventures of Cornelius (Farewell to Fifth Avenue) Vanderbilt Jr. collapsed; talked the receivers into letting him publish Vanderbilt...
Many of Homer's pictures most admired in his own time are forgotten and ignored today. Typical is the case of Prisoners From the Front, a canvas showing a group of Confederates being brought before a dapper Union officer. Painted and exhibited in 1866, this Homer was loudly hailed as the finest painting produced by the Civil War, is almost unknown today outside the Metropolitan Museum...
Chicago's leading financial editor is dapper, nervous Royal F. (for Freeman) Munger of the Daily News. He writes more for businessmen than for investors and speculators, dishing up an idea per day in a signed feature called "Old Bill Suggests." Once in the 1920's Mr. Munger was put on the carpet for a savage radio attack on real estate bonds, then in high favor with unsophisticated investors. Lately Publisher Frank Knox has been letting out his business section budget, and Editor Munger has expanded, hired a battery of specialists. In his year-end review Editor Munger...
...reason for resigning were cinemaddicts. Mr. Aylesworth attributed his resignation to press of work as chairman of Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Last year Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atla: Corp. and Lehman Bros, bought working control of RKO from RCA (TIME, Oct 21), soon followed this step by installing dapper Leo Spitz as RKO president (TIME Nov. 18). At the same time, RKO's President Aylesworth became RKO's Chairman Aylesworth, and RKO's Chairman David Sarnoff moved out. Observer thought that these moves indicated banking rather than radio influence in RKO affairs, were surprised last week that...
...General Foods' founder, the late Charles William ("Postum") Post. Mr. Hutton's personal holdings in the corporation were relatively small (62,761 shares) and he drew no salary. Mrs. Hutton owns more than 500,000 shares, each of which pays her $1.80 in dividends annually. Her dapper, stockbroking husband was rich in his own right but many of the Huttons' Sunday-supplemented goods & chattels belonged to Mrs. Hutton. Since her divorce Mrs. Hutton has re-christened her Hussar, world's biggest sailing yacht, the Sea Cloud...