Consolidated Opportunity

"Congratulations on your success as an oilman," wired Harry Ford Sinclair to his only son and namesake one day last week. A sophomore at Dartmouth, just turned 21, Harry Ford Jr. cranked a pump one summer in a Long Island filling station near the Sinclair estate, spent his last vacation as a deckhand on a Sinclair tanker. But that was not what Oilman Sinclair referred to in his wire. Harry Jr. wanted to quit college, go to work, so last week as a surprise Mr. Sinclair had him elected a director, member of the executive and finance committees of Consolidated Oil Corp.

At Dartmouth, Harry Jr. roomed off-campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor."

Oilman Sinclair's brother, Consolidated Oil's Finance Committee Chairman Earle Sinclair, has an adopted son John, who is a 22-year-old Sinclair tank wagon salesman outside Philadelphia. The election of Harry Jr. to the board of a corporation with $342,000,000 in assets seemed to require an official explanation from the chairman. Said Father Sinclair last week: "My son's election to the Board does not mean that he is going to have a mahogany desk and a big salary. It is simply a part of his education. . . . When he has completed his course as a roustabout, pipe liner and in the refineries, it will be time enough to find out what his job is going to be. In the meanwhile, he will draw our common labor rate of pay and make his own way in the company on the same footing as any other employe. He will have plenty of opportunity to realize his ambition to go to work."

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