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...turn over $37,000,000 in capital (securities, cash) of his big Atlas Corp. for new stock in Curtiss-Wright Corp., owner of the No. 1 U. S. aircraft& -engine backlog (TIME, April 1). Announced by Mr. Odium with the approval of Curtiss-Wright's President Guy Warner Vaughan, this super-Burbank financial tree-grafting took Wall Street by surprise, filled at least one class of Curtiss-Wright stockholders with articulate alarm...
...Nyllis Gardner, Endicott Junior College Galen L. Stone Nancy Vogel, Brookline William R. Taylor Ellen Sutherland, Connecticut Women's College Henry A. Tilghman Isabelle Foster, Milton Charles H. Tobias, Jr. Carol Flarsheim, Brookline Robert H. Troescher Doris Goerger, Lynbrook Byron E. Varn Rarette, Jr. Virginia Seay, Vassar John H. Vaughan Patricia Adams, Wellesley George Waissbord-Solovieff Marguerite Madden, Winsor Morton Waldstein Marie Core Duffy, Vassar Rufus F. Walker Susan Strong, Dover Willard M. Waterous Barbara Phair, Mount Holyoke College George F. Waters Ann Clarke, Beaver Country Day Frank J. Webster Jean Gebhard, Pine Manor John Wingate Weeks, II Sally Cole...
...SWAN OF USK-Helen Ashton-Macmlllan ($2.50). The life of Henry Vaughan, one of the valuable minor poets of Milton's time, made into a valuable minor novel. Vaughan's boyhood in the Welsh mountains, his life at Oxford and in noisome London, his service as a trooper-surgeon for King Charles in the savage Civil Wars and his later life as a country physician are reconstructed in a sober, ringing prose that suggests the rich style of the 17th Century. Scholar Ashton's battles and amputations make a plausible background for Vaughan's fine devotional...
...turned away from his old hunting grounds (bankrupt utilities, movie companies, stores), moved into the aircraft business -the field in which Wife No. 2 is interested. Friends of the Curtiss-Wright management offered to raise a pool to defend the company against Odlum's raid. Guy Vaughan, president of Curtiss, cooled them off. He told them the smartest thing he had ever done was to get his friend Floyd Odlum on the Curtiss-Wright board...
...months Guy Vaughan and Curtiss' 14 other directors tried to solve the problem by finding a way to get rid of the "A" stock. This has been selling around $30 but, since it is redeemable at $40, the company could not afford to retire it. First sub-committees of the board were formed to work on the problem. Then, in despair, each director was told to tackle it as a committee...