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...Power Biggs will deliver his last Sunday morning organ recital at the Busch-Reisinger Museum this week, Charles L. Kuhn, professor of Fine Arts and curator of the Museum, announced yesterday...
...recitals, broadcast on WEEI at 11 a.m. on Sundays, will be replaced by a series of tape-recorded organ programs made by Biggs earlier in the week. Kuhn suggested that the probable reason for the switch is that WEEI now has to finance the program, while formerly the mother network, WCBS, paid...
...Kuhn, Loeb & Co., headed by John M. Schiff, which originally specialized in railroad financing, and helped raise the cash to build the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroads...
Although he has always moved mysteriously in international circles, Sir William Wiseman, tenth baronet of Ulster, partner in Manhattan's Kuhn, Loeb & Co., has never made much of a public splash. He graduated from Cambridge, was gassed at Ypres, studied espionage at Scotland Yard, at 30 was the second most powerful Briton in the U.S., unofficial head of His Majesty's World War I secret service in the U.S. and Woodrow Wilson's "confidential Englishman." Afterward he joined Kuhn, Loeb, the second greatest U.S. private banking house (the first: J. P. Morgan & Co.), but kept his British...
Last week, at 70, Sir William made a public announcement that got his picture in the New York Times. He reported the creation of a private world bank, the first of its kind, named the Transoceanic Development Corp., Ltd. Sponsored by Kuhn, Loeb, First Boston Corp., and London's S. G. Warburg, the corporation has 27 participating firms famed in the banking world. Among them: Credit Suisse, David and Laurance Rockefeller, Sal Oppenheim Jr. & Cie. (Cologne), N. M. Rothschild & Sons (London), Deutsche Bank Group (Frankfurt), Amsterdamsche Bank (Holland). The bank's purpose is to buy equity shares...