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Greyhound. In corporate structure, Greyhound lines is a complicated affair, more complicated than the average railroad. Its central root stretches to Hibbing, Minn., where one Carl Eric Wickman, Swedish immigrant, was working in the mines in 1912. That year the town was moved three or four miles away, and Wickman bought a seven-passenger used Hupmobile, started transporting workers, made $2.25 the first trip. He slowly expanded his service, in 1914 incorporated Mesaba Transportation Co., operated a line from Hibbing to Duluth. In 1924 he joined his lines and some others to form Northland Transportation Co. which a year later...
...Carl Eric Wickman, 42, chief Greyhound advisor, is at present Chairman of the Pacific Greyhound System where he is coordinating things. A great broad-shouldered man who has not lost his Swedish accent, he prefers Eric to Carl, loves sport, lets no one make him write letters, whistles during conferences...
...French Lick, Ind. ¶ The Argentine polo team-Manuel Andrada, Jose and Juan Reynal, Alfredo Harrington-handicapped at 23 goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. ¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout (eleventh by Camera in the U. S.) with a right to the ribs...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry was founded by C. C. Stillman '98, and was held in 1926-27 by Gilbert Murray, Requis Professor of Greek at Oxford. In 1927-28, the chair was held by Professor Eric R. McLaglen, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The chair was vacant last year...
...Cast Musette, Irma, Lieut. Fedor Eleanor Painter Fresco Robt. Pitkin Count Berezowski Wm. J. McCarthy Sandor Philip Conyers Ladislas Eric Titus Boris Harry Hermson Pompom Sara Bair Vaninka Sophia Robinson Rafael Jack Bosman...