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Last week the following was news:

Even more athletic than big, brawny President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange is tanned, wiry President E. Burd Grubb of the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. He was Delaware River champion swimmer, amateur welterweight boxing champion of Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today the Mercedes-Benz is in the barn and Mr. Grubb drives a Plymouth. Horseman, clubman, he is one of Wall Street's best-dressed brokers.

Last week the most popular president the Curb Exchange has had in years let it be known that when his term expires next month he will quit the Curb, transfer his activities to the Big Board. Broker Grubb expects to become a partner in Coggeshall & Hicks as soon as the New York Exchange approves the transfer of a seat to him.*

*The Stock Exchange last week approved the transfer of the seat held by Curtis B. Dall, divorced husband of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall, to Alpheus C. Beane of Fenner & Beane, who is reported to be the No. 1 candidate for next governor of the Stock Exchange.

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