Aylesworth's Reward

Ever since his beginnings in a Cedar Rapids parsonage, Merlin Hall Aylesworth has been a salesman. Out of University of Denver Law School, he exercised his powers of persuasion so effectively that he became an almost miraculous collector of bad bills for doctors. Soon he sold himself for the job of chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. In four years he was an executive of the Utah Power & Light Co. He sold electricity so suavely that in 1919 he was made managing director of National Electric Light Association, powerful utilities propaganda agency. In 1926 he stepped into the presidency of National Broadcasting Co., just formed, and helped to lift NBC into big money by selling its time to advertisers. Last year potent Mr. Aylesworth left NBC to sell national advertising space in Scripps-Howard Newspapers. He did the job so well that Roy W. Howard last week rewarded him with the publishership of the New York World-Telegram, top unit in the chain. Mr. Howard kept the editor's job; Mr. Aylesworth's job: sales.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.