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Frankie Parker is a 19-year-old tennist from Milwaukee. Two years ago, his promise made such a profound impression upon Mercer Beasley that that famed coach not only undertook to improve his game but legally adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville. Last week, at Forest Hills, N. Y., Frankie Parker played Champion Fred Perry in the fourth round of the National Men's Singles Championship and lost, 4-6, 2-6, 0-6. Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days...
...mellow as Bethlehem's aging chairman, the other convening steelmen were filled with fear and fight. President William A. Irvin of the U.S. Steel, which controls 40% of total U.S. capacity, grumbled about foreign competition in home markets. President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic flayed the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill as "the outstanding legislative monkey-wrench which threatens to jam the wheels of recovery. . . . The one & only purpose behind it is to clamp the yoke of the closed shop upon free American citizens...
...Wall, Kuhn, Loeb elected to stay in the securities trade, abandoning its deposits. Traditionally railroad bankers, Kuhn, Loeb has lately widened its industrial friendships, particularly in the steel industry. Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube have long been clients, and last year the firm assisted President Tom Mercer Girdler with his Republic Steel merger plans. Last week Kuhn, Loeb was preparing to market $50,000,000 of bonds for Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel-a big industrial issue even in Kuhn, Loeb's long records...
Girdler Trusted. "We are amazed!" cried President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel Corp. last winter when the Government cracked down with an anti-trust suit against his proposed merger with Corrigan, McKinney (TIME, Feb. 18). Just why he should be anti-trusted when his $323,000,000 combination would still leave Republic far smaller than either Bethlehem or U. S. Steel remained a Department of Justice mystery...
...Grinnell, George Gulian, Robert Hall, W. Davis Hardwick, John M. Hartwell, Jr., Richard C. Hayes, Michael Hovenanian, John S. Howe, Richard Illoway, Richard C. Johnson, Francis Keyes, Graham King, Robert H. Knapp, Frank B. Lawson, Charles P. Lyman, Alexander S. MacDonald, Jr., David Macdonald, George H. Marlow, George E. Mercer, Malcolm Millard, Stanley R. Miller, Jr., Frederick R. Moseley, Jr., Edward Motley, Jr., Charles L. J. Noble, Rodman W. Paul, Arthur Perry, Jr., Lewis Perry, Jr., John G. Piper, Robert S. Playfair, Selwin Pratt, William C. Quinby, Jr., Andre C. Reggio, Gordon Robertson, Arthur M. Sherwood, 3rd., William A. Smith...