Hollister, Paul M. (Paul Merrick), 1890-1970

found: nuc88-97724: His Famous colonial houses [MI] 1921(hdg. on CtY rept.: Hollister, Paul Merrick, 1890- ; usage: Paul M. Hollister)

found: Paul Shaw Letter Design, viewed October 3, 2018:(... advertising executive Paul Hollister (1890-1970))

found: findagrave.com, viewed October 3, 2018:Paul Merrick Hollister (birth: 12 Nov. 1980, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, USA. Death: 1970, 1980, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, USA) - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67479068/paul-merrick-hollister

found: ancestry.com, September 26, 2019(Paul Merrick Hollister; born 12 November 1890 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan; died July 1970 in Ruidoso, New Mexico; son of Clay Harvey Hollister and Justina Hall Merrick)

found: The New York Times, via WWW, September 26, 2019(July 27, 1970 edition; Paul Merrick Hollister, an advertising executive and author, died Saturday [July 25, 1970] in Ruidoso. N. M., after a long illness; he was 79 years old and lived in Lincoln, N.M.; Mr. Hollister spent most of his business career in New York; he directed the first New York Is a Summer Festival promotion in 1954 for former Mayor Robert F. Wagner; his last corporate post, which he relinquished in the nineteen-fifties, was as adviser on corporate publicity to R. H. Macy & Co.; Mr. Hollister was executive vice president of Macy's from 1932-1940; he graduated from Harvard University in 1913 and went to work as a reporter on The Grand Rapids News; he entered advertising with H. K. McCann Company in 1915 and was vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn from 1919 to 1932; he left Macy's for J. Stirling Gebchell, Inc., an advertising agency, in 1940, and went to the Columbia Broadcasting System as a vice president in 1942; he joined R.K.O. Radio Pictures, Inc., as national publicity director in 1946; he lost that post in 1948 when Howard Hughes took control of the parent company, Radio Keith Orpheum; his books included “What About Harvard,” published in 1945; he was working on another book about the university)