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...grown to be the nation's most powerful bank, a financial monstrosity with a "resource potential" of more than $14 billion which it could lend to states, municipalities, private banks, private businessmen, private citizens. In a 12-story building on Vermont Ave., amidst chromium and marble, in a magnificent air-cooled hush preside the giants who control this enterprise-the five directors. Harry Truman thought George should he one of them...
...Faces, Old Roles. Amidst this latest fracas in City Hall and the troubles of its latest mayor, the city of helter-skelter hills, hodgepodge houses, crawling cable cars, fogs and fish smells goes about its play and business, cynical, tolerant and urbane...
...between dinners and smokers, alumni meandered down Princeton's pavements, felt sentimental amidst the stately elms and maples, wandered into buildings they had not known for years, got lost in new ones, gaped at the excavation for the new library. On the ivied walls of Nassau Hall they hunted their class tablets, and in Memorial Hall a solemn few paused to wonder where the university would find room for the names of Princeton's 338 World War II dead...
...companions of the right hand . . . shall have their abode among lote-trees free from thorns. . . . And the companions of the left hand . . . shall dwell amidst burning winds and scalding water"-The Koran...
...amidst all the pranks and spring fever there was a strong undertone of serious academic activity, activity unlike any seen since the middle thirties. The battle of tutorial moved toward a climax, then seemed to turn favorably at last. After weeks of Student Council and CRIMSON fire at moves intended by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to cut tutorial instruction even below the limit specified in the curtailing vote of last December, things came to a head when President Conant refuted departmental claims that financial stringency was the reason for further reductions...