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...Paul Ledyard Van Cleve, 3d. of Big Timber, Montana...
Died. John George Milburn Jr., 52, retired member of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, Manhattan law firm; brother of Polo Player Devereux Milburn; suddenly of an internal hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Died. Lewis Cass Ledyard, 80, famed corporation lawyer, president since 1917 of the New York Public Library; of myocarditis; in Manhattan. Good friend to the elder John Pierpont Morgan and Payne Whitney, he executed their estates. As trustee of the fund created by Samuel Jones Tilden, he helped merge the Astor and Lenox Libraries into the New York Public Library. Lawyer Ledyard, like his partners James Coolidge Carter and John George Milburn, was a onetime president of the New York Bar Association. For 30 years he was counsel to the New York Stock Exchange. In an age of business dinosaurs...
Seven minutes after Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...
...sheet. Smartest town is Tucker's Town, five miles away. Here is the expensive, exclusive Mid-Ocean Club, with the best golf course in the islands. Here are the "cottages" of U. S. tycoons. Largest private house on the island is that of Manhattan's C. Ledyard Blair containing a marble staircase transported from his Fifth Avenue home. Nearby are the houses of Clifford V. Brokaw Jr., Philip Gardiner, Morgan J. O'Brien, Samuel Riker. Just beyond Tucker's Town are Bermuda's two literary shrines: Tom Moore's House, where the Irish author...