Word: banker
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Married. Diana Cullom Davis, 22, dissident daughter of New York Investment Banker Shelby Davis, whom she briefly thwarted by declining to sign over her $3,800,000 trust fund to Princeton University, then satisfied in a still unpublished agreement; and John Means Spencer, 25, prep-school history teacher of whom her "mid-Victorian" father disapproved; in Scarborough...
...great J. Pierpont. A Harvardman (class of 1940) who has been with Morgan's ever since he finished a World War II tour as a subchaser skipper, the latest J. P. is described by colleagues as "a man who doesn't take himself elaborately . . . a working banker whose name happens to be Morgan...
When Bon Vivant Georges Lurcy died in Manhattan in 1953, the Paris-born banker who had prospered as a House of Rothschild protege left an estate that included three houses and a famed art collection. After the bulk of his gallery was auctioned off for $2,200,000, Lurcy's trustees were able to provide a $150,000 annual income for his childless widow, Alice Snow Barbee Lurcy, a former Paris nightclub chorine once described by an art critic friend as "staggeringly beautiful, something between Rubens and Renoir." But last week, after the trust managers had sold her five...
...Allyn Jones, 78, Calumet Farm's folksy, foxy trainer of six Kentucky Derby winners, including two holders of the Triple Crown, Whirlaway and Citation, whom he considered respectively his favorite and his greatest ("a Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like it"), waste...
...surprise of many a banker, Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed Non-Banker Oren Root, 50, to be New York's new state banking superintendent. Energetic Lawyer Root, who, at 28, helped set off the Willkie-for-President boom, is a grandnephew of Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt, and a son-in-law of Movie Magnate Spyros Skouras. Under New York's new Omnibus Banking Law, Root will rule on the merger applications of some of the world's biggest banks...