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ANOTHER important boy from rural mountain parts--with face and hair of reddish hue, is Thomas L. Riley. Fat pencil in hand, he's the man who has put such people as Lowell Thomas, Ruth Etting, and the NBC Honeymooners on the air. His job is not performed at the microphone. His pencil may cross out one of Lowell Thomas lines. When the orchestra gets its cue for one of Ruth Etting's songs, Tom Riley, late of the University of Kentucky, is the man who penciled it in. Mr.Riley, in short, is a producer...
...enabling the corporation to ride out Depression without seriously depleting its treasury. Second was a vast program of plant improvement still in progress. Third was to pension off an army of aging executives, re-peopling Steel's offices with smart young men, of whom the most notable was Edward Riley Stettinius, son of the late Morgan partner. Now only 34 and vice chairman of the omnipotent finance committee, Steelman Stettinius was supposed to have been hand-picked as a likely future head for U. S. Steel...
...yearling sales-nocturnal outdoor auctions conducted during the two middle weeks of the season-should therefore this year bring the highest prices since Depression. Thumbing through the catalogs of Fasig-Tipton Co., which conducts the auctions, horse buyers last week had their choice of 550 yearlings. Colonel Edward Riley Bradley with nearly 50 for sale offered, as usual, to bet even money against anyone who thought he could pick a yearling at the auctions which would win a race the following year...
...Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's three-year-old filly Black Helen: the $25,000 added American Derby; with Mrs. John D. Hertz's Count Arthur half a length behind; at Washington Park, Chicago...
Happy last week was Louisville's most famed bookmaker, taciturn Sam ("Dink") Dinklespiel, most of whose clients had bet on Edward Riley Bradley's Boxthorn. An amiable, round-paunched, ruddy-faced bachelor, Bookmaker Dinklespiel is the most phlegmatic member of his profession in the U. S. He says he cannot remember the biggest bets he has accepted because "those things make little impression...