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After a night's sleep in Troy, the children were as lively as ever, but John Kidder had the sniffles and a splitting headache. Another day showed weakness in his right arm. John Kidder walked into a hospital and was put to bed. Since that day in June of 1951, he has never been able to get out of bed unaided. Polio, which is yearly taking a higher toll of adults, had spared the Kidder children but struck the father. As he puts it: "From active good health I was transformed in two short days into a motionless hulk...
...going to be a quiet vacation for John Faus Kidder and his family. John Kidder, a 31-year-old supervisor in a Du Pont fabric plant, spent the first few days close to his home in Fairfield, Conn., lazing on the beach and playing golf. He washed and waxed the car. Then his wife and three children piled into it for the drive up the Hudson River valley to Troy, where they were going to spend a week with his parents. On the way, they stopped at Hyde Park and saw the grave of the nation's most famed...
...twinkle in Ted Schmitt's eyes let the lineman know he was being kidded again. Schmitt, in his three years as varsity line coach at Harvard, has come to be known as a kidder. The label fits him well because he wants it that way; kidding is part of his coaching technique. A lineman himself for eleven years, Schmitt knows that line play is always rough, seldom noticed, and never remembered. Since the lineman must cat some mud, the problem is to make him like it, so Schmitt tries to keep him laughing. Although Schmitt is the first to admit...
...months ago, prodded by Congress, GAP put Schering up for sale. Last week it was sold to the highest bidder, brokerage firms Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, Kidder, Peabody & Co., and Drexel & Co., who had joined with more than 70 other investment houses to make the bid. Price: $29,131,960. The high price surprised Wall Street, since Schering stock has a book value of about $26 a share, against the syndicate's bid of about $66. This week the syndicate is splitting the 440,000 shares four to one, will put them in the market at $17.50 each...
...Kidder, in honor of whom the medal is named, is a member of the faculty of Peabody Museum. John O. Brow, director of the Peabody Museum, said last night that, "Dr. Kidder is America's foremost living archaeologist...