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When "Rick" Bay died in 1955, his widow found herself the sole owner of 73% of the stock and all of the capital ($28 million) of the venerable Wall Street firm of A. M. Kidder & Co. She promptly incorporated it and became the firm's president and board chairman, the only woman ever to head a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange. "I like a man's world," she explained. "Wall Street isn't frightening." In addition to Kidder, she was board chairman of American Export Lines for two years (until she sold...
...China after the war ended. Later, Paul started a rare-metals import business, bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, finally got into the oil business in a big way. Since his marriage, he has replaced his wife as board chairman of A. M. Kidder and, with Josephine, manages their vast business and philanthropic interests...
MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE SCULPTURE, with text by J. Edward Kidder Jr. (328 pp.; Tuttle; $27.50). A large, well-illustrated historical survey; the photographs, most of them black and white, are superb, and the compilers have broken up what might have been a tedious procession of figures with excellent detailed closeups. The subjects, of course, run to delicate, serene Buddhas and wrathy temple guards, and they are delightful...
...Office is operating under grant from the Kidder, Peabody and Company and the Kidder, Peabody Foundation...
...Where?" flips bosomy Joyce Taylor (Atlantis, The Lost Continent), jeans tight about her hips, man's shirt open to the navel. "To the nearest motel?" But Joyce is more than a kidder; she packs a mean pistol, which she has used to hold up a gas station and steal a car. At the village drugstore, Dave separates her from her banana split, shoves her and two sinister cronies into a squad car and heads toward headquarters...