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Elected vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue, big Manhattan smartshop, was Ira Arthur Hirschmann, advertising director of Lord & Taylor since 1931. Son of a Baltimore banker, he left Johns Hopkins at 17, studied music, entered the L. Bamberger & Co. department store in Newark as an office boy. There he helped build up the radio station WOR, annotated its Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts, became publicity and sales director at 25. Now only 32, he is a close adviser of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, who offered him a post as Commissioner of Markets. An ardent exponent of the Nazi boycott...
Kirkpatrick Scholarships: Robert L. Angenblick 1L, of Newark, N. J.; William H. Ernst 1L, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Nestor S. Foley 1L, of Somerville, Mass.; George Gore 1L, of Rapid City, S. D.; Howard L. Hausman 1L, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Samuel L. Kobre 1L, of Newark, N. J.; Milton P. Kroll 1L, of Paterson, N. J.; Bertram H. Loewenberg 1L, of Roxbury, Mass.; Donald L. McCaskey 1L, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Frank J. Meistrell 1L, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; William L. Owen 1L, of Excelsior Springs, Mo.; Alexander G. Sanderson, Jr. 1L, of Texarkana, Ark.; Sidney D. Spear...
...railroad men, streamlined his trains. At last year's Century of Progress in Chicago he exhibited a toy replica of the Union Pacific's crack M-IOOOI-the first toy train built absolutely to scale (1/45th). Orders began streaming in by the thousands. Last week in Newark, U. S. District Judge Guy L. Fake, congratulating the receivers on their prompt rehabilitation of the company, terminated the receivership, handed the company back to its management with liquid assets greatly increased. All creditors had been paid in full within eight months. Christmas sales had been the biggest in history, sales...
...England-Australia air race last autumn was United's Traffic Manager Harold Crary. An hour after Turner's departure a regular Eastern Air Liner took off from Miami with twelve passengers. Pilot Dick Merrill refueled at Charleston, picked up a tailwind at Richmond, scooted into Newark at 227 m.p.h., two minutes ahead of Turner, two hours ahead of Rickenbacker's record. Pilot Merrill's time...
...oldtime mail pilot is TWA's youngish Harry C. ("Skippy") Taylor. His was the fastest transport flight of the week. With 14 passengers in a TWA Douglas he rode a 60-mi. tailwind from Chicago to Newark (743 mi.) in 2 hr. 54 min., averaged better than four miles a minute...