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Playing some of the leads are: Robert Bacon '42, Bayard Clark '40, Gardner H. Pierson '42, and George L. Blackman...
...unnamed red fox: the 144th anniversary Bayard Taylor Memorial Hunt, biggest fox hunt ever held in the U. S.; outwitting 140 hounds (seven packs); before 10,000 spectators; on the estates of Pierre S. du Pont and W. Plunket Stewart in Chester County, Pa. After a chase of six miles, the fox jumped to the roof of a shed, climbed through a window, was rescued just as the hounds approached the door. Carried off in a sack, the fox was released after the hounds were called...
...profits kerplunked to a miserable $53,301 the next year. Reason: the stubbornness of President Charles Pearce (a Johnson man) in trying to hold his top-heavy volume in the face of rising distribution costs and collapsing soap prices. Up rose young (35) S. Bayard Colgate, great-grandson of the founder. Using his family's 40% ownership of the firm's stock as a lever, he booted Pearce out, took over the presidency, in one year had the company once more on an even keel...
Chorister Holvik of Elbow Lake, Minnesota, and Eliot House tallied 90 votes. Other candidates and their votes were: Charles D. Lutz, Jr., 70; James A. Rousmaniere, 67; David S. Burt, 63: Edward G. Dreyfus, 53; A. Jan P. La Rue, 50: Bayard S. Clark, 44; Howard P. Mendel, 35; and John L. Donnell...
Citizens of Montclair, N. J. had a mighty pretty letter in their mail last week. The letter, from Mayor William E. Speers and Director of Revenue and Finance Bayard H. Faulkner, said that the town treasury had a surplus of half a million dollars. "What do you think?" said the letter, "would you rather reduce the town's debt another $100,000, leaving $400,000 to cut 1940 taxes-or cut 1940 taxes the full $500,000? The enclosed postcard is for your judgment. . . ." When Montclair's taxpayers had calmed down sufficiently to reply, they answered that they...