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Married. Navy Lieut. Joseph Knefler Taussig Jr., 23, Annapolis '41, holder of the Navy Cross (for Pearl Harbor valor), only son of outspoken Vice Admiral Taussig; and Betty Bostwick Carney, 23, daughter of Rear Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney; in Washington...
...Phippses (Mike & Ben), Charley von Stade and Alan Corey Jr. (galloping together under the name of Gulf Stream): the National Open Polo Championship; defeating Ebby Gerry's Aknusti four (three Gerry brothers and Pete Bostwick) in the final, 10-to-6; at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club...
Slim, soft-spoken Floyd Bostwick Odlum, who built Atlas Corp. from a $40,000 experiment in 1923 to a $121,336,779 investment trust ten years later, has one very special gift: an uncanny ability to sense ''special situations." Last week Floyd Odlum released Atlas' 1940 report, and with it a bagful of cats. His newest "special situation" was revealed to be Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., 7% cumulative Class A stock. First reaction of many a Wall Streeter: "What does Odlum see in that?" Second reaction: look...
While his equally horse-minded wife, the late Louise Eustis Hitchcock, taught two-legged thoroughbreds such as Winston Guest, Mike Phipps, Stewart Iglehart, Pete Bostwick and her own Tommy the ABCs of polo. Squire Hitchcock taught four-legged thoroughbreds the ABCs of jumping. Unlike most jumpers, Hitchcock's are neither converted flat racers nor hunters. He buys weanling thoroughbreds (both in Europe and the U. S.), with infinite patience and understanding, develops them into extraordinarily tractable jumpers. As yearlings, when most thoroughbreds are mighty kickuppy, Hitchcock's pets are as stolid as plow horses, let stable boys shinny...
Biggest merger news in aviation's his tory was Floyd Bostwick Odium's proposal two months ago to turn over $37,000,000 in capital (securities, cash) of his big Atlas Corp. for new stock in Curtiss-Wright Corp., owner of the No. 1 U. S. aircraft& -engine backlog (TIME, April 1). Announced by Mr. Odium with the approval of Curtiss-Wright's President Guy Warner Vaughan, this super-Burbank financial tree-grafting took Wall Street by surprise, filled at least one class of Curtiss-Wright stockholders with articulate alarm...