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Otis Resignations. In 1899 Charles Augustus Otis founded the banking house of Otis & Co. Sixteen years later he made young Cyrus Stephen Eaton a partner. Last week Charles Augustus Otis resigned from the firm bearing his name as did Partner Mervin Clark Harvey. Both will go to E. A. Pierce & Co., buyer of the brokerage business of Otis & Co. Other influential Otis & Co. partners who have resigned include Joseph Oriel Eaton (no relation to Cyrus), Richard Inglis, Ferdinand Eberstadt. Cyrus Eaton remained, comparatively alone...
...Bridge World. Eight months ago he wrote and published the Contract Bridge Blue Book, advocating a bidding system for contract bridge on which he had worked eight years. Salient point in the Culbertson "approach-forcing system" is a two-bid to show unusual strength and to signify that partner, regardless of the merit of his own hand, must keep the bidding open. So successful was the Culbertson system when used by average U. S. bridge players that his book outsold the bridge works of Work, Whitehead, Lenz, et al., has now sold 112,000 copies...
...dropped from the board of Fox Film Corp., now Chase-dominated. By contract he retains a $500,000-a-year salary until 1935. A new Fox director whose election was a surprise was David K. Este Bruce, son-in-law of Andrew William Mellon. George Mallory Pynchon, senior partner of defunct Pynchon & Co?took a salaried job with Potter 6 Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange. Nathan S. Jonas, founder of Manufacturers Trust Co., Manhattan, chairman of its board of directors, resigned. This had been rumored ever since Harvey Dow Gibson & associates bought control of Manufacturers from Goldman...
...wasn't removed"); 2) addressed, as a onetime student, the graduating class at smart Groton School ("I have received letters from men of foremost prominence who have asked me why their garbage is not collected every day"); 3) lunched momentously with President-maker Edward Mandell House, Wilson's "silent partner," at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass...
...Second of the three famed daughters of Actor Richard Bennett, Barbara was best known as dancing partner of the late Maurice. If Troubadour Downey had any doubts about his own importance they were doubtless resolved last month when he saw the front page of the tabloid New York Mirror almost entirely occupied by a photograph of his wife. A wily cameraman gained admittance to her hospital by bringing a large bouquet. In the bouquet was hidden a camera...