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...Mandate? But Avery angrily turned down the deal. When the annual meeting publicly exposed Avery's slipping grip and Corporation Secretary John Barr had to take over the gavel, the five directors knew they could wait no longer. They decided that Avery must be replaced by up-and-coming John Barr. Also slated for ouster: Edmund Krider, 42, an ex-accountant picked as $76,000-a-year president by Avery in 1952, who was considered to possess Avery's ruthlessness without either his charm or ability. The directors tackled Avery again, suggested that having won over Wolfson...
...Wolfson forces began relentlessly to hammer Avery with questions from the floor. Desperately, the Ward group tried to shield the old man by putting the chair in the hands of Corporation Secretary John Barr. But Wolfson stockholders insisted on answers from Avery himself, and the old man, lost in the clangor of shareholders' cowbells and the booming of loudspeakers, seemed confused, often crying out, "I can't hear...
...point, his purpose accomplished, Louis Wolfson rose, oozing charity, and asked an end to the bull-baiting. "It seems that Mr. Avery is not in a position today to conduct this meeting," he said. "I will appreciate it if you will accept Mr. Barr as chairman." Then, in an aside, Wolfson told reporters: "This is the greatest corporate fraud ever perpetrated...
...number one match with Dave Damon of Massachusetts, Cooney won on the 20th hole. Stokes lost to Barr at two, 3 and 2; Ornsteen defeated Getchel, 4 and 3; Jones lost to Holton, 2 and 1; Bailey triumphed over Packard, 4 and 3; Thurmond defeated Morrison, 6 and 5; and Fleischman lost to Dane on the 20th hole...
Jaffe will receive a $800 prize from the James Barr Ames fund set up by the former dean of the Law School to promote the competition. BakerSmith will receive the runner-up prize...