"Everybody thought he had a God-given duty to go out and buy Ford stock," groaned a harried Chicago stockbroker. "We didn't have near enough to go around."
As Wall Street expected, the 10.2 million shares of Ford stock put on sale for $64.50 by the Ford Foundation promptly "went out the window" on F-day. The seven syndicate managers (Blyth & Co., Inc.; First Boston Corp.; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Lehman Bros.; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane; White, Weld & Co.) each got 307,500 shares. But the 2,000 other firms that helped sell the issue got...
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