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...million Americans who, since July 4, 1776, carried this luggage to continental conquest and world leadership, exhibit in their personal and public characters the dynamism of high tension between contrasts. This is not a quiet or consistent people. Its restless side is mirrored in Thomas Alva Edison and Upton Sinclair and the music of George Gershwin. This same people reveres Robert E. Lee, a Christian conservative rebel, and produces figures like Henry Ford, a radical businessman, and William Green, an archconservative labor leader. Of the 300 million Americans, none has shown in his own person the contrast, the tension...
...Bruce Alva Gimbel, 39, moved up to the presidency of Gimbel Brothers, Inc., succeeding his father, Bernard Feustman Gimbel, 68, who became chairman of the board. The third-generation Gimbel to be president since great-grandfather Adam Gimbel opened his Palace of Trade in Vincennes, Ind. 111 years ago, Bruce Gimbel started learning the business after graduation from Yale, has been vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue (a Gimbel subsidiary) since...
...after day, Rookie Pitcher Alva Holloman of the St. Louis Browns plucked at Manager Marty Marion's sleeve. "I'm not a bullpen pitcher," "Bobo" Holloman would say. "I'm a starting pitcher. Give me a chance." Manager Marion just kept shaking his head. Two or three times, Bobo was called in from the bull pen to do a little relief pitching. But the big (205 Ibs., 6 ft. 2 in.), 27-year-old righthander was not very impressive: ten hits, five earned runs in 5½ innings. One night last week, tired of Bobo...
...moderator will be Malcolm P. McNair '16, of the Business School, and Alva f. Kindall, Personnel director of Filence's, will speak on retailing...
...Alva 1C. Kelley, head football coach at Brown has been a singularly difficult one this year; the loss of 20 men through graduation and 14 through ineligibility has forced him to do a complete rebuilding job for the second year in a row. Things are so bad in Providence, in fact, that Kelley has gone beyond playing sophomores who started on the 1951 freshman team he has had to use second year men who were third and fourth string players...