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President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street on the first Sunday of the month, December 5th, from 4 to 6 p.m. and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives...
...Jewish religion, a husband may divorce his wife at will; "some uncleanness in her" has even been interpreted to include bad cooking or fading looks. It has been up to the rabbis to hobble the tempted with rituals and restrictions. One device dating back at least to the 5th century B.C. is the Kethubah (literally, "what is written"), a contract by which a Jewish husband must make provision for any wife he divorces. In about A.D. 1000, Germany's Rabbi Gershom ben Judah banned polygamy for Jews of the Western world and decreed that if there were no overt...
...Trebba was drained by a reclamation project, its muddy bottom proved to be an ancient necropolis. Out of 1,250 tombs came bronze vases and candelabra, gold and silver jewelry and a wealth of beautiful pottery. Part of it was of Etruscan manufacture dating as far back as the 5th century B.C. Much of the rest was Greek of various periods...
...starting as a messenger boy in 1906. He was made vice president in 1931, executive vice president in 1940, and from 1944 on also supervised the bank's major loans (e.g., to Henry Kaiser, Israel, etc.). Given the chairmanship as an honorarium, he will retire on his 6 5th birthday next May. ¶ Carleton Putnam, 52, announced that he would step down as board chairman of Atlanta's Delta Air Lines, Inc. this week. A well-to-do Princeton graduate ('24), Putnam bought his own plane, became so enthusiastic about flying that he formed Chicago & Southern...
...Thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints converged on Salt Lake City for the Mormon Church's 12 5th semiannual conference. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a member of the Mormons' top policymaking body, the Council of the Twelve Apostles, voiced a plea "that regardless of the party you are affiliated with, you remember the standard the God of Heaven has given and use your influence to help safeguard the country and see that honest, good and wise men are elected to public office...