Last week the following were news: William McCormick Blair, first cousin of Publisher Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, graduated from Yale in 1907. That year a bright young Chicagoan named Francis Augustus Bonner graduated from Harvard. Yaleman Blair worked in Chicago's Northern Trust Co., famed training ground for brokers and bankers, then joined Lee, Higginson & Co. Harvardman Bonner became financial editor of the defunct Chicago Evening Post, a railroad statistician, then also joined Lee, Higginson. Last week Mr. Blair, 50, and Mr. Bonner, 49, teamed together to form the underwriting...
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