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...Philanthropist. In Walden, N.Y., when it was discovered that kindly, popular Town Clerk (since '28) Richard E. Baird, 65, had for years been reducing people's water bills without their knowing it (with a total revenue loss of $16,151), that not a cent went into his own pocket and that his beneficiaries were rich and poor, friend and foe, even people he didn't know, his only comment was: "I really don't know...
Other residents of the Yard still have complaints about poor heating, however, complaints about poor heating, however. Julian T. Baird '60 complained to the Freshman Union committee two weeks ago that the heating in Matthews is deficient. Baird discussed the problem with J.D. Connors, supervisor of care-taking who told him that "there was a possibility" that the steam system might be turned off later than midnight...
...afterward he takes a ritualistic one-hour nap, getting into pajamas, sleeping soundly. Sometimes he works through the afternoon; sometimes he relaxes among his Oriental wood carvings and Chinese Buddhas; sometimes he takes the second Mrs. Rockefeller (his beloved Abby died in 1948; in 1951 he married Martha Baird Allen, widow of a classmate of the faraway days of Brown) for a drive in one of the family cars, or a carriage-and-pair, to savor the salty tang...
...acting with and for a group-"just a few old friends"-whose identity he kept secret. But at least three were tentatively identified as New York Investment Brokers David Baird and Charles Allen and Theater Tycoon Simon H. (Si) Fabian, president of Stanley Warner Corp., to which Warners sold its theater chain in 1953, in accordance with an antitrust decree separating moviemakers from exhibitors. While Semenenko denied that old friend Fabian, "a wonderful executive." had invested in his new deal, he admitted that he would "like to see the legalities ironed out, so that Fabian could get into the picture...
...Donald Baird, assistant curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, will decide what the bones should look like and in what relationship they should be placed. Since this is the only Kronosaurus skeleton ever recovered, the size and placement of bones will be determined by studying other Plesiosaurs, he said...