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Engaged. Martha Pintard Bayard, famed tennis player; to one Henry Rice Guild, of Boston...
Colgate-Pompeian. Bayard Colgate, director of Colgate & Co. (soaps, perfumes, toilet articles), went to Cleveland last week to talk with President Otto F. Leopold of Pompeian Manufacturing Co. (cosmetics). Result: Colgate & Co. acquired control of the Pompeian concern...
...suggested Senator Neely of West Virginia in effect. So an order was adopted, authorizing Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry* to arrest absentees. Mr. Barry and five assistants scurried to telephones, told Senators to hurry to work. An hour later, he made the following report to the Senate: "Mr. Bayard could not come because he is getting ready to go out of town to attend a funeral tomorrow. . . . Mr. Caraway's telephone, it is said, has been disconnected. . . . Mr. Keyes is in bed, but says he will think it over. I think he was serious about that...
...Knowledge tied for first place among the men, with 96%. But the editors dedicated their volume to a 95% man, "who," they said, "might have dictated the answers to these questions and spared the authors the trouble of looking them up." This 95-percenter was energetic Editor Herbert Bayard Swope of the World, among whose favorite pastimes is sitting, a sharp-witted, rufous Zeus, among lesser immortals of his metromundane Olympus, being "it" (all alone) in a game of Nebuchadnezzar. When Ask Me Another! was published last week it contained 30 general quizzes and 10 special ones. Editor Swope...
Stone & Webster, famed New England engineering, construction and securities firm, announced last week amalgamation of Blodget & Co., Boston and New York investment house, with its securities department. The new company, to begin operations Jan. 1, 1927, with $10,000,000 capital, will be known as Stone & Webster & Blodget, Inc. Bayard F. Pope, now partner of Blodget and Co., will be President. This extension of investment-securities interests, said President-elect Pope, was necessary to care adequately for both the investor and Stone and Webster's rapidly increasing engineering-construction work...