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What Geologist Putnam decided to do. and did do last week, was to buy out his cousin, the Vice President. Then, to bring new blood into the old house and fill the executive hole, he arranged a merger with the six-year-old firm of Minton, Balch...
...firm with which G. P. Putnam's Sons will merge (through an exchange of stock) has published John Dewey's The Quest for Certainty and Alice Grant Rosman's present big-selling The Young and Secret. Minton, Balch & Co., Inc. for the immediate future at least, will be run as a separate department, "benefiting from the wide Putnam scope. Palmer Cosslet Putnam's new partners are Melville Minton. 45. a big-chested, hardworking salesman with a business head; and Earle Balch, 36, the curly-headed, smiling, amiable, pianoplaying, song-singing, artistic half of the combination...
...company's books showing more than $40,000,000 in uncompleted work. Unusual seemed the western pilgrimage of such Manhattan Ulen-men as Matthew Chauncey Brush and Harry A. Arthur of American International Corp.; of Bayard F. Pope and George O. Muhlfeld of Stone & Webster; of Gordon H. Balch of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. The trip was also taken by Chicago Ulen-men Marshall Field and Edward P. Currier, of Field, Glore & Co. Whoever is a Ulen director must go to Lebanon for his company's meetings for Mr. Ulen is filled with Lebanon civic-pride...
...Friends of course chipped in handsomely. Now on the board of trustees with him are personages like Henry Mauris Robinson (banks, Dawes Plan, Hoover crony); Harry Chandler (Los Angeles Times, real estate developer) ; William Lincoln Honnold (mining engineer, Hoover friend); Henry William O'Melveny (lawyer, banker); Allan Christopher Balch (utilities); Louis Davidson Ricketts (copper miner, brother of President Palmer Chamberlaine Ricketts of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
...smart junior and Phi Gamma Pitkin, who had asked her up. There was some roughhousing on the ice called a moccasin dance, discreeter dances indoors; skating, tobogganing, skiing went on next morning, but the most interesting event was the slalom race. Down from the top of Balch Hill, toward the dark skirt of pinewoods and the scattered crowd plunged the slalomers with a spiked pole in each hand. A slalom race is an obstacle race on skis; all the way down the course little red flags nailed to stakes on the white curve of the mountain pointed the racers...