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Payson S. Wild, Jr., Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor of Government, has been appointed vice-President and Dean of Faculties at Northwestern University, the school's Board of Trustees announced at noon yesterday. The statement confirmed reports published two weeks ago in the CRIMSON that Dean Wild was resigning his Harvard posts to assume a job at Northwestern...
...Veritas. In State College, Pa., after Dean of Admissions William S. Hoffman retired from his job at Pennsylvania State College, he let a secret out: he was the student who dumped that bucket of water on faculty members 40 years ago...
...Waltham Watch Co., which closed down its plant four months ago, had the cash to get started again. But there was one last obstacle. It had on hand 185,000 watches, enough to satisfy the market for some time, and block the new line Waltham wanted to bring out. Last week Waltham found a quick way to get rid of them. It made a deal with the Associated Merchandising Corp. to clear out all the watches it could at half-price through A.M.C.'s 24 retail outlets...
...time John F. Kopczynski graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology ten years ago, he was thinking seriously about wheels. Why, he asked himself, should they always be round? Maybe oval wheels would do some jobs better. Last week, Kopczynski (now 31 and president of Buffalo's Pivot Punch and Die Corp.) displayed a set of something he calls "Walk Wheels." They are oval in shape and can flip-flop through mud or sand that would founder conventional round wheels...
...Judy Garland still wanders through an enchanted Technicolored landscape with the Tin Woodsman (Jack Haley), the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr). The whimsical gaiety, the lighthearted song & dance, the lavish Hollywood sets and costumes are as fresh and beguiling today as they were ten years ago when the picture was first released. Oldsters over ten who have seen it once will want to see it again.Youngsters old enough not to be frightened out of their wits by the Wicked Witch (Margaret Hamilton) will have the thrill of some first-rate make-believe...