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...risk that arises in the peculiar genius of Mr. Ford. No one can anticipate his processes."-Waddill Catchings of Goldman Sachs & Co. Said Paul M. Clay, vice president of Moody Investment Service: "I'd rather buy genius than material." The Billion. In 1916, Partner John W. Prentiss of Hornblower & Weeks met Henry Ford in Detroit. Said Mr. Ford: "Oh, you are one of those Wall Street guys." Mr. Prentiss offered him a half billion dollars for his concern. Mr. Ford laughed at him. In 1924 Mr. Prentiss offered Edsel Ford a billion dollars. Edsel Ford refused...
Howard Elliott '81, President of the Council, presided. The following men were present at the meeting: H.L. Clark '87, A.T. Perkins '87, vice-president, T.W. Slocum '90, E. Hollisher '97, E.H. Wells '97, L.P. Marvin '98, J.W. Prentiss '98, Eliot Wadsworth '98, B.H. Dibblee '99, N.F. Ayer '00, J.P. Jones '02, J.R. Hamlen '04, Chairman of the Executive Committee, John Richardson '08, S.D. Warren '08, H.C. Clark '11, Leverett Saltonstall '14, vice-president, J.W.D. Seymour '17, and D.T.W. McCord '21, acting executive secretary...
...Fugue; continued with Brahms's First Symphony, in a full-throated interpretation; was clever, cacophonous, to suit Strauss's Don Juan; ended with his now familiar spellbinding performance of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun. Again the city congratulated itself on the musicianly foresight and executive powers of Adella Prentiss Hughes, first U. S. woman organizer and manager of a symphonic orchestra...
...Hughes is both a novelist and a scholar with a thirst for the sensational. (His sister-in-law, Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes is Tsarina of the Cleveland Orchestra.) Musicians know him for his able works: American Composers, Music Lovers' Cyclopedia. Rabid novel readers recall such things as: The Thirteenth Commandment, Souls for Sale. Then suddenly, last January (TIME, Jan. 25), Mr. Hughes bounded into the public eye as the interpreter of a new George Washington. Citizens were shocked by his speech before the Sons of the American Revolution in Washington, D. C. Senators flayed him. So Mr. Hughes...
SPENCER W. PRENTISS...