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...stock trading and the difficulties that will be caused by the introduction, on April 5, of negotiated rates on big trades. In his new job, Saul, 48, seems to be in line to move up quickly to one of the two top posts at First Boston. Its chairman, Emil Pattberg, is 61 and its vice chairman of the board, Andrew N. Overby Jr., is 62. They are both close to the mandatory retirement...
...extended duty. Last week Miller, at 44, was named president of the nation's largest underwriting house, which last year placed $2 billion worth of securities. He will be in charge of underwriting, serve as the youngest of the firm's three chief executives (others: Chairman Emil Pattberg Jr., 54, and Executive Committee Chairman Charles Glavin, 53). Tall and greying, Miller is a Philadelphian who went to Princeton. Was he a good student? "Negative," he grins. On the job he gets his greatest satisfaction from advising customers on how and when to raise expansion capital...
Black Airmail. At Duisburg, Germany, one Hermann Pattberg, rich manufacturer, received a package containing a carrier pigeon and a note ordering him to tie a 5,000-mark ($1,191) bank note to the pigeon and release it. Otherwise he would be killed. Shrewd Herr Pattberg hired a plane and pilot which followed the pigeon and photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched...
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