Word: kidder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field, Sam Huff is an unassuming extravert with a reputation as a waitress kidder, a dislike for liquor (two beers make him woozy), and a quiet determination to get to bed around 10 every night. But the game has left more of a mark on him than the slightly twisted nose in his handsome, square-jawed face. Sometimes he worries that the mean streak he works up for his profession of violence will affect him permanently. "You've got to watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys...
...succeeding Joseph A. Thomas, 52, who resigned. Widow of Financier-Diplomat Charles Ulrick Bay, Josephine Bay took over the business affairs of her husband after his death in 1955, became the first woman to reach a top Wall Street post when she became president and chairman of A. M. Kidder & Co., Inc. Now married to Oilman C. Michael Paul, who succeeds her as executive committee chief, she is the first woman to hold a major post in the shipping industry...
...Clarence J. Dauphinot Jr., 44, Deltec has pioneered in raising investment capital in Brazil to develop new industries for the country and set a pattern that others are copying. Dauphinot, a onetime Wall Street foreign-bond trader, got interested in the project during trips to South America for Kidder, Peabody & Co. during World War II. He found that while Brazilian industry was starving for capital, money was stagnating in savings accounts and sewn-up mattresses. "The U.S. had been exporting all sorts of American know-how," says Dauphinot, "except a very basic one-the formation of capital-marketing techniques...
Sign the Mayor. Dauphinot left Kidder in 1946 and formed Deltec S.A. in Rio de Janeiro. Initial capitalization: about $2,500. His first deal was to sell a 15,000,000 cruzeiro ($750,000) stock issue for an American & Foreign Power Co. subsidiary. With a sales crew of 25, Dauphinot began a door-to-door selling campaign. But after six months, only about half the issue had been sold, and all but one salesman had quit. The undaunted survivor, Paulo Quartin, son of a Brazilian diplomat, doggedly kept at the job and succeeded, by year's end, in selling...
...gift of $90,000 from Kidder, Peabody & Co. was made in memory of their late partner, Edwin Sibley Webster, Jr. An additional $195,000 has been given anonymously, in two gifts, for the athletic endowment. These gifts have been added to the previously existing sum of $700,000. The Program is seeking to add $2,000,000 to the H.A.A. endowment...