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...first things that tall Charles Shipman Payson did after he graduated from Yale in 1921 was to marry Joan Whitney, daughter of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney and niece of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Harry Payne Whitney. One of the next things he did was to become interested in taking sugar syrups from Cuba to the U. S. Refined Syrups, Inc. made no money, claimed two engineers, until they suggested to Charlie Payson that he ship syrup sufficiently low in sugar content to dodge the $40-a-ton duty, pay 83? instead. Because this solution fermented within ten days...
Last week Charlie Payson made news with another suit. This time it was for Rustless Iron Corp. of America of which he is chairman and chief backer, and this time he won a clear victory. Rustless Iron was launched in 1926 to exploit the U. S. rights to a simple process for making stainless steel, developed by a fat, genial Briton from Sheffield named Ronald Wild. The Wild process combines chromium and steel in one step where other processes take three steps. Shortly before Metallurgist Wild retired because of poor health in 1931, Charlie Payson became visible in the light...
...Kenneth Payson Kempton '12 was elected to the Advocate a associate member at a board meeting last night. Kempton is an instructor in English composition at Harvard and has charge of English A2. In a recent issue of the Mercury an article by him entitled, "Golf, a Poor Man's Game," was published...
Another Whitney formally took to horse racing when plump Joan Whitney Payson registered her colors (pink-&-black) with the American Jockey Club. Other Whitney stable owners: her mother, Mrs. Payne Whitney (pink-&-black); her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney (fuchsia-&-purple); her cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney (blue-&-brown) with whom Mrs. Payson's large, handsome husband Charles rowed for Yale...
Sirs: Reading your inimitable TIME of Nov. 28 avidly I ran across the interesting and touching "Don't you bite, Bing" on p. 22 stating the shepherd dog was found rabid, foaming at the mouth and putting the boy owners in grave personal danger. I just finished Albert Payson Terhune's article "Queer Things About Your Dog," which states, on his long experience as a breeder of prize collies, that a dog foaming at the mouth is not rabid-that a dog foams at the mouth from a number of causes, and that a rabid...