Last week for the third time in a seven-year rise to riches, Charles Willard Young founded a Manhattan investment counsel firm. His first was Young & Ottley, launched in 1929 with the financial aid of a fellow Yaleman named James Henry Ottley. Young & Ottley promptly established itself by calling the stock-market crash. In 1933 young Mr. Young pulled out of Young & Ottley, moved from Manhattan's Chanin Building diagonally across 42nd Street to the Chrysler Building. There with new backers, notably James Cox Brady, Mr. Young set up an-other investment counsel firm called...
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