Business & Finance: Youngest

Last week William Steele Gray Jr. was elected president of Manhattan's Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. ("No Securities for Sale"). Tall, dark, handsome, he was born to wealth, served in the Navy during the War, graduated from Princeton in 1919. He promptly entered his father's chemical supply house as a salesman. In a few years he was made president (and still is). Unlike Treasurer James F. Behan of A. T. & T. who spent 30 long years plodding up through the ledgers (see above), William Steele Gray Jr. entered banking only eight years...

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