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...bright young men to ask if he would like to take over as general manager of the floundering Buick Division. Back came the answer from Harlow ("Red") Curtice: "When?" Recently Red Curtice, now G.M. president, got a chance to repay the offer. Phoning Bill Knudsen's son, Semon ("Bunky") Knudsen, he asked: "Like to take over as general manager of Pontiac?" Came the reply: "When...
...Jules Semon Bache, broker and bon vivant, laid away his millions so thriftily that when he died last fortnight (TIME, April 3), U.S. art lovers found themselves beneficiaries of a superb art collection. Last week the 63 Bache (rhymes with aitch) paintings were still hanging in the Bache Manhattan mansion, which the collector had donated (1937) to house them, where they were on view upon application. When the war ends, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will house the approximately $12 million worth of Bache paintings where everybody can see them...
Died. Jules Semon Bache, 82, art-collecting, art-bestowing Manhattan banker and broker; after a brief illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. The monocled, well-preserved bon vivant took over his uncle's Wall Street firm in 1892, swelled it to 42 offices, 800 employes. He became one of the greatest patrons of pre-19th-Century art, in 1937 turned over to New York his Fifth Avenue mansion, with its choice, more-than-$12,000,000 assortment of canvases, from 18th-Century Giovanni Bellini to 18th-Century Sir Joshua Reynolds...
Ameripol is Goodrich's second important synthetic; its first, Koroseal. Both were developed in the laboratory of Goodrich's synthetic whiz, Waldo Semon. Goodrich is building a $300,000 plant in Akron to make tires of at least 50% Ameripol...
Married. Francis Warren Pershing, 28, son of General John Joseph Pershing. Commander-in-chief of the A.E.F. during the World War; and Muriel Bache Richards, 23, oldest granddaughter of Philanthropist Jules Semon Bache; in Manhattan. Most remarkable guest at the wedding ceremony: John Joseph Pershing. Two months ago the No. 1 U. S. War hero took to his bed suffering from heart disease and a kidney ailment, on one occasion sank so low his physicians announced he would not live the night. Sufficiently recovered was the doughty 77-year-old last week to journey to New York, pose for photographers...