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...Gilbert Novey Grosvenor, President of the National Geographic Society: "It is with much pleasure we see on our platform every member of this marvelous aggregation of executive, seafaring and scientific talent, 80 courageous explorers...
...authority on backgammon is Grosvenor Nicholas, Manhattan clubman, retired wine importer. Last week his book, issued in 1928 when nobody cared, enjoyed high sales. Backgammoner Nicholas himself, urbane, quiet-spoken, contradicted his own contention that there is no skill in the game by winning, in one afternoon, 35 games of backgammon in a club (New York Racquet & Tennis) where sometimes 1,000 games are played a day. Writes he: "It is unnecessary to preserve silence, always so depressing. The disturbing presence of the fair sex . . . is never unwelcome. Where there is no concentration, there can be no distraction...
...month after its first birthday, pow erful Aviation Corp., $40,000,000 holding company, last week acquired a new president. Lean, sharp-witted Graham Bethune Grosvenor stepped down to vice-chairman of the directorate while gaunt, eye-glassed, solemn-looking but humorous Frederic Gallup Coburn stepped up from the directorate and assumed the No. 1 title. Avco published no reasons for the change but well-informed observers knew the following...
Pulling together 43 manufacturing and transport companies and a large investment concern into a cohesive, economical whole to the satisfaction of all concerned - bankers, stockholders, experts, personnel - was a superhuman task for any man to accomplish in one year, in a new industry. Graham Grosvenor, able graduate of Otis Elevator Co., had done the groundwork, defined the problems. Four months ago James Franklin Hamilton, a railroad man, was called in to head all Avco's transport operations which constitute one-third of the industry's total in miles flown (TIME, Dec. 30). Now Mr. Coburn is called...
Died. Edwin Prescott Grosvenor, 54, Manhattan lawyer (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan; of pneumonia...