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Does G.M. feel a responsibility not to compete so hard as to drive marginal producers out of the business? Snapped Donner: "And when did you stop beating your wife? If you are thinking of Studebaker-Packard, we didn't drive them to their present con dition. They drove themselves there. Did you ever stop to wonder what they did with the profits of the lush war years, if they reinvested them in the business...
...William Elaine Richardson departed one day last week for his office, the main Mexico City branch of the First National City Bank of New York. As usual, there was a brisk flutter of papers and a businesslike reaching for telephones when he arrived; Richardson maintains the no-nonsense tra dition of banking, runs his office with taut efficiency. But on that day last week there was more than routine importance to his arrival. It was his last; at 65, the banker who opened First National City's first Mexican branch 27 years ago was hanging up his Homburg...
...Last Farthing. In Sheffield, England, Steuart Davis admitted to a judge that he had spent the last $20,000 of his fortune in seven months and turned to street cleaning to thwart his wife's am-Dition to get alimony, added: "She's no Rita Hayworth...
...theater critic for the Yale News. As "The Meyer Davis of Yale," he organized some five dance bands, one of which he took on 22 Atlantic crossings. One night he heard Tito Schipa sing an aria and decided to be an opera singer. By 1936 he wangled an au dition at the Metropolitan, but when he discovered the small size of his starting salary, he gave in to an offer to appear in the Elsa Maxwell-Leonard Sillman Who's Who. Who's Who did not turn out to be Sonny. He played another musical, began singing...
...until he was elected chairman of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway last April. No railroad man, he spent two months inspecting nearly every mile of Katy's 4,956-mile system, meeting division agents, studying freight problems. Last week Katy gave "Matt" Sloan the post of president in ad dition to his chairmanship. The presidency has been vacant since the resignation last April of Michael Harrison Cahill...