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...bank that emerged from the maelstrom, a new type of banker was needed. One of the new bankers was Henry Clay Alexander. He was not saddled with the marks of wealth, caste and privilege. He was born in humble circumstances, the son of a grain and feed merchant in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He did not attend the best Eastern prep schools, had worked his way through Vanderbilt University, saved enough to go on to Yale Law School. He had not been trained to be a banker, joined the Manhattan law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed as a promising trainee...
Alexander is not the Eastern, blue-blooded banker once associated with the idea of Morgan & Co. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., son of a grain and feed merchant, went to Vanderbilt ('23) and Yale Law School. He worked on Morgan affairs as a partner of the giant Wall Street law firm of Davis Polk, so impressed J. P. Morgan Jr. that he became a Morgan partner in 1939. He became chairman in 1955, with a reputation for topflight banking and for building Morgan's staff. In line with Morgan's new look, Alexander does...
...puffing come purple imagery, melodrama of incest and murder, sentence structure as involuted as an express highway cloverleaf. The dividend from this school of writing is that the reader achieves a total immersion in the scene; the danger is that he may drown in words. Fortunately, Author Lytle (of Murfreesboro, Tenn.) comes up for air every now and then, and gets on with his story of life in the Cumberlands of Tennessee during the 1870s...
Marriage: MacArthur was married in 1922 at the age of 42 to Mrs. Louise Cromwell Brooks, the daughter of Philadelphia's wealthy socialite Mrs. Edward Stotesbury. The marriage ended in divorce in 1929. In 1937, he married lean Marie Faircloth of Murfreesboro, Tenn., a quiet, dark-haired woman 19 years his junior. The MacArthurs have one son, 13-year-old Arthur MacArthur...
Henry Clay Alexander, 48, the new president, was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and went from Vanderbilt University ('23) and Yale Law School to corporation practice with Morgan Lawyers Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. He was a Morgan partner by the time he was 36. For the past 22 months, as executive vice president, he has been in line to move up. As he did, President George Whitney became chairman, replacing longtime Morgan Partner Russell C. Leffingwell, who, at 72, stepped down to vice chairman...