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Died. Samuel Bayard Colgate, 65, president (1933-38) and chairman (1938-52) of Colgate-Palmolive Co., great-grandson of the toothpaste company's founder, who took over the top job when sales were sliding after a merger with soapmaker Palmolive-Peet n 1928, cut costs, and scrubbed up the business until, with profits on the rise, he was able to devote time to philanthropy, notably Colgate University, which changed its name in 1890 because of Colgate family endowments: of a heart attack: at his estate on Contentment Island, in Darien, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 18, 1963 | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...yesterday by our infantry and artillery . . ." In the end, the Union defenses held, and the rebels were sent into rout. For Timesman Wilkeson, there was glory, but little pleasure in victory. At the height of battle, he had found the crushed body of his son, 19-year-old Lieut. Bayard Wilkeson, a Union artillery man. "My pen is heavy," he wrote that night. "Oh, you dead, who at Gettysburgh have baptized with your blood the second birth of Freedom in America, how you are to be envied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Page One News | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...Sebring dictum must be strictly observed: "Oil is for machinery and moving parts; unless you have a screw loose, it has no place on the head." Cigars, Facials. Chicago, for all its Midwestern spittoons-on-the-floor masculinity, has at least two beauty shops for men. Biggest is Bayard's Hair Studio, where it is not an uncommon sight to see a husky customer sitting with a cigar in his mouth and a hairnet on his head, as an operator uses a hand dryer to finish up his permanent wave. Owner Tom Bayard (who wears one of the toupees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Handsome Is | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...stark stage set in the Mannheim National Theater, a white door was hung with white lace curtains representing the "Door of Life"; on the other side a purple door, draped with a heavy purple mourning curtain, represented the "Door of Death." Moving between life and death, members of the Bayard family moved across the years between 1840 and 1930, their varied history remembered at a continuous Christmas dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Christmas | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...opera opens with Roderick Bayard, his wife and his mother, in the dining room of their new home, eating a turkey dinner. A nurse enters through the Door of Life, cooing to an imaginary baby as Mother Bayard departs quietly through the Door of Death. The opera ends with Ermengarde, the last of the Bayards to occupy the old house, singing softly: "They're building a new house, fancy that"-and making her exit through the Door of Death. Hindemith translated the libretto into German, sacrificing some of the nostalgic quality of the original, as in the moving sextet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Christmas | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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