Harry Sayles Conover

Harry Sayles Conover (August 29, 1911 – July 21, 1965), was an American radio performer, model and business executive. He was known for creating the term "Cover Girl". Conover went to school at Peekskill Military Academy, further north of New York City, in the lower Hudson River Valley of upstate New York, in Peekskill, New York.

Early career He worked a variety of jobs including being a dough mixer in a bakery, being a disc jockey and a necktie salesman.

Conover Model Agency

In 1939, Conover went out on his own and invested $500 into a one-room office which served as the headquarters of his new "Conover Model Agency". A decade later, he had 12 office suites in the same building and was making over $2,000,000 a year.

Conover was credited with inventing and copyrighting the term, "Cover Girl". Conover then began working for charm schools. Conover later went bankrupt. Dalton had modeled for Conover prior to their marriage. The couple later divorced with Dalton accusing him of "extreme mental cruelty". He married again to Candy Jones in 1946 and the couple had then three children together, but they divorced 13 years later in 1959 At the time of his death, Conover had a total of five children and a grandson.

Conover died on July 21, 1965, at Elmhurst City Hospital due to a heart attack. He was 53 years old.