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...York Stock Exchange tape lazied along: about 120,000 shares an hour, 610,000 shares for the full session. The 3 o'clock gong found members shrugging their shoulders at the end of one more lackadaisical, profitless day. But in the offices of Manhattan's Dillon, Read & Co., the gong was the signal for a burst of activity. Dillon, Read headed a group of investment bankers and brokers with 500,000 shares of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) common to sell (for the estate of Oil Heir Edward Stephen Harkness). The bankers got busy on telephone and wire...
...some underwriters (like Dillon, Read) and to big exchange members, such off-the-market distributions have been a lucrative sideline to regular business. But the rank & file of Stock Exchange members have had to stand by and squirm while a lot of potential commissions went over the counter & far away. Many a broker wondered last week whether the Big Board was about to become merely a device for establishing quotations, while the business went elsewhere. Their only consolation: that big blocks of stock like Harkness' are being distributed into small investors' hands, whence it is likelier than before...
...addition to Burditt's scoring and spectacular backboard play, Bill Suyder tallied six points, Dick Elken five, and Don Lutze four. Dillon, Hyde, Hadley, and Baker accounted for Harvard's remaining points. Saturday afternoon the Freshmen meet Exeter in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Torgan and Dillon, in the defense department, are startling contrasts to the attack. Both are relatively short and claim their positions not so much by their spectacular shooting but rather by their shifty floor work and passing. Torgan is a sot shot specialist; while Dillon rates as probably the best ball handler on the squad. Neither one has shown any outstanding scoring abilities but they emphasize dependability and control...
...Freshman game, Coach Skikp Stanley's Yardlings will be out to make up for last week's loss to Tufts Junior Varsity. George Dillon and Jack Torgan will start at the forwards, George Burditt at center, and Don Lutze and Dick Elken at the guards. This game will be the first of the season for the Husky Freshmen. HARVARD NORTHEASTERN Simpson, f. f, Azzone Romano, f. f., Pajonas Rothschild, c. c., Lawler Finegan, g. g., Sullivan Buckley, g. g., Maron