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Purchase of the Park Drive apartments cost the University $350,000, of which $100,000 was contributed in recent months by organizations and alumni. An additional $200,000 for converting the buildings into an International House is being raised by a committee under the direction of Abraham M. Sonnabend...
...dealing with a lunatic or a martyr." Allan can do nothing, either, with Jefferson Davis, except stare into his eyes and say: "God grant you wisdom, Mr. Davis." Later, he regrets not having "poured out his soul," but he wisely suppresses the impulse again when, in his presence. Abraham Lincoln worries about the Constitution and tells two stories of doubtful humor. Most of the speeches and conversations of the great sound authentic; only the hero, Montague-Sinclair, is unreal. He is, nevertheless, an engaging figure to the connoisseur of the absurd in fiction-a kind of Candide without Voltaire...
ALLEGHANY FIGHT is heading for showdown after compromise attempts failed. Chairman Allan P. Kirby has withdrawn offer to give Boston Financier Abraham Sonnabend a seat on Allegheny's board, will not extend a second otter to buy 200,000 shares of stock claimed by Sonnabend, and challenges him to a proxy fight. Sonnabend is mum on plans, has not yet filed statement of proxy intentions with...
Honest Abe. In Klamath Falls, Ore., a bidder picked up a bust of Abraham Lincoln for $1.75 at an auction of unclaimed stolen goods, discovered that it was also a savings bank containing $4.50 in coins...
...riffles with heavy hands through enemy backs ("I keep the one with the ball"). Last week, once again tackling hard and low, the Colts hit the San Francisco Forty-Niners so hard that they allowed only three first downs, put balding Quarterback Y. A. (for Yelberton Abraham) Tittle in the hospital with a possible fractured knee. Final score: Baltimore 45, San Francisco 14. The victory moved the Colts into a first-place tie in the Western Conference with the Forty-Niners, who have themselves bounced back from a 6-6 season last year largely because of a revamped defense...