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Nine years later, when old John Blair was laid in his grave, a 15-year-old stripling named Hearn Waters Streat went to work for Blair & Co. as a runner. While Blair & Co. built up a reputation as the first firm to make equipment trust certificates a safe investment, and as co-financiers of Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific and many a big industrial concern like Texas Co., genial Hearn Streat moved up through the ranks. He became a junior partner in 1920, same year Blair absorbed William Salomon & Co. In 1929, when Blair merged with the security affiliate of Bank...
...vast holding company which sold its interest in Bank of America (Manhattan) in 1931, sold working control in Bancamerica-Blair to San Francisco Financier Ashby Oliver Stewart, who is now chairman of the board (TIME, Dec. 26). Obvious choice as active head of the firm was hard-working Hearn Streat, not only the employe with the longest service but credited in Wall Street as the underwriter with the widest acquaintance in the business. Last week he became vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee. Simultaneously, Bancamerica-Blair resumed (subject to stockholders' approval) its maiden name...
Bulletins flooding in through the evening presented many contradictory accounts of the by-laws of the organization, known as the Celibates Society. First denying, then admitting under pressure that he had been elected president, John R. Hearn '39 gave the following statement to the press...
...involvement which has such a detrimental effect on college men, who go from one affair to another. We're not interested in the equal-rights-for-women question. And furthermore, I haven't any ideas on two-piece bathing suits." After denying that he had ever seen Deanna Durbin, Hearn hung...
...essentially the literary trustee of its early Boston contributors like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier. Other Atlantic contributors who have made literary history include: Robert Browning, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Henry James Jr., Thomas Hardy, Lafcadio Hearn, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, John Galsworthy, Robert Frost...