Word: whitlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he opened the world's biggest drugstore in Hollywood two years ago, Rexall Drug, Inc.'s President Justin Whitlock Dart threw a $90,000 party complete with film stars, searchlights and 10,000 free orchids. To Justin Dart, onetime tackle at Northwestern University, the celebration was the booming kickoff to the Rexall team's postwar expansion program. But by last week many a stockholder had begun to wonder why Rexall had not followed up with a few smashing plays...
...that the only way to communicate with him was by leaving a letter under a certain stone in Central Park. He was an expert billiard player, a master of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and a seasoned music critic. He was in the U.S. foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with the names of such people as New York's Bishop Manning and Chicago's Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell...
...Perry took over the course. Since then both the instruction and the administration have come under the University Study Counsel. Charles P. Whitlock assists Perry in teaching the course...
...Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten," wrote one Illinois poet, Vachel Lindsay. "The only governor of Illinois sure to be named by remote generations," wrote another, Carl Sandburg. Ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker thought him "a genuinely great man"; so did Brand Whitlock, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium; so did, and do, numberless others. The latest to unearth and praise the forgotten eagle is able, young (32), leftist Novelist Howard Fast (The Last Frontier, The Unvanquished, a New Masses assistant editor). Fast retells the John Peter Altgeld story in a fictionalized biography: The American, A Middle Western Legend...
...with Walgreen's. A chain of such stores has been the dream of United's energetic, athletic president, Justin Whitlock Dart, 38, ever since he was started in the drug business by Charles R. Walgreen Sr., then his father-in-law. He soon proved that his job did not depend on nepotism. Over the objections of fellow executives, he busily rearranged the interiors of Walgreen drugstores, showed that it was just as important to put an article in the right place in a store as to put the right things in the manufacture of the article. Sample change...