Duncan Hines (47 page)

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“Duncan Hines, Adventurer,”
Tide: The Newsmagazine for Advertising Executives
(3 August 1951): 3.

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Press release, Duncan Hines Institute, Ithaca, New York, 1 October 1957, 3.

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Park City Daily News
, 16 March 1959. The 1954 edition of
Adventures in Good Eating
was the final version that Hines fully supervised and edited; it contained 2,365 recommended restaurants.

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“Meet Duncan Hines,”
Moonbeams
(November 1958): 6. Park located the Duncan Hines Institute in one of Ithaca's largest old mansions, a 100-year-old two-story Georgian structure at 408 East State Street.

⁶²⁹
Duncan Hines,
Duncan Hines' Food Odyssey
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 26.

⁶³⁰
Duncan Hines Institute, Inc.,
Adventures in Good Eating
(Ithaca NY: Duncan Hines Institute, 1959), iv-v.

⁶³¹
Greensboro Daily News
(Greensboro NC), 31 July 1960.

⁶³²
Duncan Hines Institute,
Adventures in Good Eating
, vi.

⁶³³
Ibid., x.

⁶³⁴
Several years later the
Mobil Travel Guides
solved this difficulty by publishing books broken down into geographical regions. Park experimented with this concept as well, but there is no data available to indicate its success.

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Chicago Daily Tribune
, 5 January 1954.

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Duncan Hines, “Duncan Hines Picks Ten Best Motels in U. S. A.,”
Look
18 (12 January 1954): 31-34.

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Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 258.

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Courier-Journal
, 4 April 1954.

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Chicago Daily Tribune
, 5 January 1954.

⁶⁴⁰
Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 10 May 1994.

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Courier-Journal
, 4 April 1954.

⁶⁴²
Roy Park's interview with Duncan Hines, ca. 1954.

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Nelle Palmer was widowed by this time; her husband, Arthur, had died in 1951.

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Duncan Hines,
Duncan Hines' Food Odyssey
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 226.

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Chicago Daily Tribune
, 5 January 1954.

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“Best,”
The New Yorker
30 (17 April 1954): 26-27.

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Park City Daily News
, 27 June 1954.

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Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 229.

⁶⁴⁹
Park City Daily News
, 27 June 1954.

⁶⁵⁰
Horace Sutton, “What Do You Want, Oomph in Your Butter?,”
Saturday Review
37 (17 July 1954): 31.

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In
Duncan Hines' Food Odyssey
(229), Hines said he later discovered that the ham was “also a popular Italian delicacy, called
prosciutto
, although it's usually reserved for special occasions because the ham is so expensive.”

⁶⁵²
Park City Daily News
, 27 June 1954.

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Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 229-31.

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Park City Daily News
, 27 June 1954.

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Park City Daily News, 27
June 1954; Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 231-32.

⁶⁵⁶
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 232.

⁶⁵⁷
Park City Daily News, 27
June 1954.

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Sutton, “What Do You Want?” 31.

⁶⁵⁹
Park City Daily News, 27
June 1954.

⁶⁶⁰
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 232.

⁶⁶¹
Park City Daily News, 27
June 1954.

⁶⁶²
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 232.

⁶⁶³
Park City Daily News, 27
June 1954.; Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 233-34.

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Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 233.

⁶⁶⁵
Park City Daily News
, 27 June 1954.

⁶⁶⁶
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 233-34.

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Park City Daily News
, 27 June 1954.

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“Hines Abroad,” The
New Yorker
30 (24 July 1954): 15-16.

⁶⁶⁹
Park City Daily News, 27
June 1954.

⁶⁷⁰
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 234.

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Ibid., 236.

⁶⁷²
Park City Daily News
, 27 June 1954.

⁶⁷³
“Hines Abroad,” 15-16.

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Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 236.

⁶⁷⁵
Sutton, “What Do You Want?” 31.

⁶⁷⁶
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 237.

⁶⁷⁷
Park City Daily News, 27
June 1954.

⁶⁷⁸
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 112.

⁶⁷⁹
Park City Daily News
, 27 June 1954.

⁶⁸⁰
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 237.

⁶⁸¹
Ibid. Some publications erroneously reported at the time that Hines returned to America on the
Queen Elizabeth
.

⁶⁸²
Ibid., 238.

⁶⁸³
Park City Daily News, 27
June 1954.

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“Hines Abroad,” pp. 15-16.

⁶⁸⁵
Sutton, “What Do You Want?” 31.

⁶⁸⁶
Hines Abroad,” 15-16.

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Sutton, “What Do You Want?” 32.

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Park City Daily News
, 27 June 1954.

⁶⁸⁹
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 238.

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Park City Daily News
, 16 March 1959.

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“Setup & Style of Duncan Hines Dessert Book.”

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Park City Daily News
, 15 September 1955.

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“Notes For Duncan Hines Book,
There's No Accounting For Tastes
,” from interview conducted by Roy Park with Duncan Hines, ca. 1954, 1.

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“Eating for a Living,”
Newsweek 45/21 (23
May 1955): 75.

⁶⁹⁵
“Trends Affecting the Food Service Industry,”
American Entertainment Magazine
(June 1955).

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Duncan Hines speech, 14th Annual Duncan Hines Family Dinner, Chicago, Illinois, 9 May 1955.

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Interview with Robert Wright, 25 May 1994.

⁶⁹⁸
North Carolina State College News
(Raleigh NC), August 1955, 6-7.

⁶⁹⁹
Park City Daily
News, 15 September 1955.

⁷⁰⁰
North Carolina State College News
, August 1955.

⁷⁰¹
Duncan Hines,
Duncan Hines' Food Odyssey
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 262.

⁷⁰²
Ithaca Journal
(Ithaca NY), 17 August 1956.

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Duncan Hines speech, Duncan Hines Family Dinner, Chicago, Illinois, 7 May 1956.

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Wall Street Journal
, 18 August 1956.

⁷⁰⁵
Northwestern Miller
(Minneapolis MN), 21 August 1956.

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Journal of Commerce
(New York NY), 20 August 1956.

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Washington
[D.C.]
Post-Times-Herald
, 18 August 1956.

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Journal of Commerce
, 20 August 1956.

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Press release, 17 August 1956.

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“Duncan Hines Joins the Family,”
Moonbeams
(September 1956): 4.

⁷¹¹
Park City Daily News
, 16 March 1959. When Procter and Gamble acquired the rights to the Duncan Hines name, Roy Park chose the least costly way of disposing with food suppliers whose products still displayed the Duncan Hines name. According to Ed Rider, archivist at Procter and Gamble, rather than waste money on protracted litigation, Park wrote the president of each licensed company and asked them to stop using the Duncan Hines name. While many companies complied with his request, others refused, citing the terms of their contract. Rather than fight them in court, Park decided to let them use the name until their contracts expired. The last contract lapsed around 1969. After that time, Procter and Gamble owned exclusive rights to the name.

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Duncan Hines Institute to Duncan Hines Family members, 30 November 1956.

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Interview with Sara Jane Meeks, 7 June 1994.

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Monterey
[California]
Herald
, 2 March 1956.

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Meeks, 7 June 1994.

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Interview with Caroline Tyson Hines, 27 July 1994.

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Monterey Herald
, 2 March 1956. Whether Hines really ate this concoction is highly improbable, but he gave a good reason for the practice, stating there was no need to put milk and sugar on corn flakes when ice cream could produce the same result.

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The company was founded in October 1837.

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New product presentation material, Procter and Gamble, Inc., November 1957.

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Courier-Journal
(Louisville KY), 7 July 1957. The royalty agreement with Procter and Gamble was the same as the one Hines had made with Roy Park in 1949; under that contract he also received one-half cent per 24 units of every product sold.

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Duncan Hines Family Newsletter, 28 March 1958, 1.

⁷²²
North Carolina State College News
(Raleigh NC), August 1955.

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Meeks, 7 June 1994.

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Chicago Sun-Times
(Illinois), 3 December 1957.

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Dallas News
(Texas), 22 December 1957.

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Duncan Hines Family Newsletter, 28 March 1958, 7.

⁷²⁷
“Duncan Hines Deluxe,”
Moonbeams
(October-November 1959): 12.

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Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 12 July 1995.

⁷²⁹
Meeks, 7 June 1994.

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Interview with Mary Herndon Corhon, 29 August 1994.

⁷³¹
Spiller, 16 August 1993; interview with Robert Wright, 25 May 1994.

⁷³²
Park City Daily News
, 16 March 1959; death certificate, Kentucky Registrar of Vital Statistics, 15 March 1959.

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Rev. H. Howard Surface conducted Hines's funeral ceremony in an Episcopal church at 12th and State Streets in Bowling Green, not far from his late sister's home. Beside the church today stands the Duncan Hines Chapel, so named because Clara Hines donated monies to have it built in her husband's memory.

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Park City Daily News
, 16 March 1959; interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 10 May 1994. The only sibling not buried in the family plot was Annie Hines. She was laid to rest next to her husband, Scott Hines, in December 1951, in another section of the same cemetery.

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Park City Daily News
, 19 April 1959.

⁷³⁶
Ibid., 16 March 1959.

⁷³⁷
[Louisville, Kentucky]
Courier-Journal
, 17 March 1959.

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Ithaca
[N.Y.]
Journal
, 16 March 1959.

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Park City Daily News
, 19 March 1959.

⁷⁴⁰
Interview with Robert Wright, 25 May 1994. Her house was located at 728 Richland Drive.

⁷⁴¹
Park City Daily News
, 1 June 1960.

⁷⁴²
In the Hardy living quarters is a bathroom Hines had built, which remains virtually untouched; it resembles a 1930s-style hotel bathroom, complete with white-tiled floors and walls and glass doorknobs. It also has an unusual septic tank, which is a freight train car Hines had buried in the back yard.

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Roy H. Park to Duncan Hines Family, 23 November 1962.

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New York Herald-Tribune
, 24 November 1962.

⁷⁴⁵
Ithaca Journal
, 15 May 1963.

⁷⁴⁶
Times-Union
(Rochester NY), 16 August 1973.

⁷⁴⁷
Courier-Journal
(Louisville KY), 25 November 1962.

⁷⁴⁸
Daily News
(Bowling Green KY), 5 May 1988.

⁷⁴⁹
Park City Daily News
, 8 August 1983.

⁷⁵⁰
New York Times
, 27 October 1993, D23.

⁷⁵¹
David M. Schwartz, “Duncan Hines: He Made Gastronomes Out of Motorists,”
Smithsonian
15 (November 1984): 97.

⁷⁵²
Duncan Hines,
Duncan Hines
'
Food Odyssey
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell) 243.

⁷⁵³
Milton MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?”
Saturday Evening Post
211 (3 December 1938): 80.