Word: alumnus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flowers & Candy. In the Big Ten Conference, the alleged angel of angels was a do-or-die Iowa alumnus, war-rich from the deep-freeze business and completely fed up with seeing the old school ploughed under. The Big Ten's front office denied any knowledge whatsoever of professionalism. The more it said, the more certain it appeared that there were at least 30 or 40 fully accredited angels at work. Stars of far less lustre than Illinois' Buddy ("Black Magic") Young were reportedly getting $2,500 to $5,000. Rumored top for headliners...
With meticulous care the list recorded F.D.R.'s modest possession of $133 in cash on the day of his death. Last year's royalties on The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, published by Random House in 1938, amounted to a mere $13.50. Alumnus Roosevelt's $500 investment in the Harvard Club of New York had dwindled in value to $350. Typical debts: $22 for Hyde Park seed, $72 to a British stamp dealer, and $8.88 for newspapers...
...enough for Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. Graduates of any other prep school had to bring along an elaborate collection of grades and records, but not the boys of "Old Sawney" Webb of Bell Buckle, Tenn. (pop. 378). Returning from Versailles, Woodrow Wilson, onetime president of Princeton, told Webb alumnus Norman Davis: "The Webbs defy all the accepted laws of pedagogy, but their boys were the best prepared that...
Last week 46-year-old Ed Stettinius returned to the University of Virginia-as its 26th rector, a post whose first occupant was Founder Thomas Jefferson (1819-26). Virginia had long since rewarded its No. 1 alumnus by giving him an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key. The University of California added an honorary LL.D...
...Endowed with $300,000 by ex-Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, and 7,500 international lawbooks by goateed Alumnus (and onetime World Court Judge) John Bassett Moore. The new school's director: Colonel Hardy C. Dillard, boss of Virginia's wartime school for Military Government officers...