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...International Harvester's active head has always been a Scotsman. Its managerial traditions are tight-lipped accounting and long-headed efficiency. Its annual report usually concludes with a tribute to the "zeal," "courage," "loyalty" or "resourcefulness" of its organization. After the sons and grandsons of the late great Cyrus Hall McCormick began to lavish their energies on personal affairs, Alexander Legge took command. When Mr. Legge died in 1933, right at hand was a faithful first vice president whose sober Scotch virtues had raised him from the stock room-Addis Emmet McKinstry-Last week Mr. McKinstry retired because...
...Kiblreth '36, head usher, John E. Barnett 4G., Alfred C. Butterfield '37, Frank S. Deland, Jr. '36, James G. Grady '36, Shaun Kelly '36, Clifford Mannal '37, Raymond C. G. Reid '36, Richard S. Salant '35, Douglas C. Scott '36, Robert E. Simon, Jr. '35, Herbert N. Stevens '35, Cyrus C. Wells '36, Roy W. Winsauer...
Cercle Francais officers for next year were chosen Wednesday night after a supper at Eliot House. They are Howard A. Cook '37, president; Robert A. Turner '37, vice-president; and Cyrus C. De Coster, Jr. '37, secretary-treasurer...
...penthouse that the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis practically never used, atop his New York Post building in Manhattan, was loud with the talk of literary folk one day last week. The wife of the newspaper's new owner, Julius David Stern, was giving a cocktail party for oldtime subscribers and contributors to St. Nicholas Magazine...
...born 71 years ago, scion of an old Albany family in which pedigreed cattle had long been a hobby. He sped through Amherst and Harvard Law School, went to Chicago, got a reputation as one of the city's ablest and coldest young men, made friends with Cyrus McCormick, became general counsel for Illinois Steel. At the turn of the Century, he moved to Manhattan and married Alta Rockefeller whose fortune was estimated at $50,000,000. Active law practice held him not many years after that. In 1911 he bought 1,000 acres in the Berkshires near Williamstown...