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Died. Martha Baird Rockefeller, 75, onetime concert pianist, second wife and widow of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and stepmother to the five Rockefeller brothers and their sister, Mrs. Jean Mauzé; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young Martha Baird played under such conductors as Pierre Monteux, Sir Thomas Beecham and Serge Koussevitzky. She retired in 1931, married Rockefeller in 1951 and became a generous patroness of music. Besides establishing the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music to aid young musicians, she backed the recent Metropolitan Opera productions of Norma and Fidelio and the New York City Opera...
...fund, believed to be the first of its kind in the country, was set up in December with money from student activity fees. It was inspired by a series of lectures by birth-control advocate William Baird...
Three Yardlings turned in double wins Tuesday for 30 of their team's points. Fred Mitchell won the 200-free in 1:48.17 and the 500-free in 5:03.87-both good times, especially considering the lack of pressure. Jeff Baird's wins were in the 50-free (23.02) and the 100-free...
...securities field. Born in Milwaukee, Wis., the son of an insurance agent, he graduated from Hope College in Holland, Mich., in 1940. He went on to Harvard Business School on a scholarship, earning an M.B.A., and joined Milwaukee's Wisconsin Co., which later became Robert W. Baird & Co. As a securities analyst there, he earned $125 a month (his present salary: $125,000 a year). After a wartime stint in the Navy, he returned to the same company and was made a partner in 1950. At the time, he had only $1,000 cash and had to sign...
...reasons for its popularity can be traced to the opening days of casting. Television puppeteers of genius can be counted on the fingers of Ernie's hand: Burr Tillstrom, who has his own NET series, Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Bil Baird, who operates a puppet theater in Greenwich Village and Jim Henson of Sesame Street. Fusing the best of puppets and marionettes, Henson coined the name and the creature, "Muppet." For six years, Henson's Muppets enjoyed a quiet, loyal following (including Joan Cooney) before they hit the big time on the Ed Sullivan Show. On the Street where they...