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...college presidents, James E. Walter of Congregational Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga. is probably the most tenacious. Since he first accepted a $500-a-month gift from an educational foundation started by antiSemitic, anti-Negro onetime Judge George Armstrong of Fort Worth, Texas (TIME, March 12, 1951, et seq.), students and facultymen have demanded again & again that he resign. Last week, as the academic year closed, President Walter was in the same old cauldron again...
...Communist guerrillas came back to Kalavryta too in 1948, during Greece's bitter civil war and for a month held and looted the village. Again there were cries for help. The King and Queen came; so did General Van Fleet. Athens granted $40-a-month pensions to the widows in black. But soon Athens forgot; three years ago the pensions were stopped, and important officials no longer thought to come. "It is the'way of governments to forget," said a widow of Kalavryta...
...Canny Scotsman Tommy Armour taught her a few tricks of the old-pro trade. Moans Jackie: "When somebody drops a long putt against me, I'm not supposed to compliment her at all. Just turn and walk off to the next tee." Jackie, who gave up a $185-a-month job with Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Honolulu for the faster money on the fairways, has been a quick study. In her first five tournaments she finished 11th...
...running errands and clerking nights in a store. At 16, when his father died suddenly, Bill had to go to work in earnest. He learned shorthand, earned $50 a month as a secretary by day, and by night went to Professor Dennis O'Connor's $25-a-month classes in math, geography, history, English and Latin. After three years he was able to pass exams to enter night law classes at the University of Pittsburgh, and graduated at 22, the youngest in his class...
After a World War I overseas hitch as a tank captain, he settled down to a $75-a-month job preparing briefs for a law firm, and worked briefly as a bank trust officer. He didn't like it, tried politics, served one term as a Republican state representative. When Pittsburgh's Peoples Savings and Trust Co. offered him $7,500 a year as a trust officer, 27-year-old Bill Price grabbed...