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Chief beneficiary of all this brouhaha is Doughnut Corp.'s board chairman and controlling stockholder, Adolph Levitt. Operating a chain of bakeries after World War I, Levitt found that Salvation Army lassies had made doughboys doughnut-conscious, that the new market thus created needed a mass-produced doughnut, uniform and digestible. After engineers produced for him an efficient doughnut machine, Pioneer Levitt organized Display Doughnut Machine Corp. (later Doughnut Corp.) to sell it to independent bakers. In 1925 Levitt put out a standardized mix, later supplied patrons with optional trade names (most famous: Downyflake, Mayflower...
...late, great Adolph Simon Ochs started at 15 as a printer's devil on a Knoxville paper, worked for a while on Watterson's Courier-Journal, acquired the Chattanooga Times in 1878 (when he was 20) with $250 of borrowed capital. In Chattanooga, Publisher Ochs amassed the fortune with which he bought the New York Times 18 years later...
Organization of interdormitory athletics will start with appointment of managers for each Freshman Hall. The program, under the direction of these managers, a Sophomore manager to be announced soon, and Adolph W. Samborski '26, Director of Intramural athletics, will include a series of touch football games this fall and other sports encounters later on in the year...
Including the eight House athletic secretaries, a master chosen by the House master, Director of Athletics Bill Bingham, and Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, the Council makes recommendations on policy, decides on eligibility rules, and coordinates the inter-House program, as explained in Samborski's report on last year's House Athletics...
Under the new system, as explained by Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, any team which is twice defeated is eliminated from the inter-dormitory league. If time permits, he said, other games will be scheduled for the end of the fall...