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...track mileage (21,021) in North America, two-ocean fleets (the famed Empresses), a Great Lakes fleet, a string of luxury hotels (Chateau Frontenac), controlled Canada's second-largest mining company, held some 5,000,000 acres of land, ran its own cable and telegraph systems. A lifelong bachelor, Sir Edward was a remarkable double - in face, figure, mannerisms and dress - for England's Admiral Beatty, World War I naval hero...
Barbs and Thunders. For resolving all manner of political tides (from Isolationism to Stalinism) into concentrated aid to the war effort-and at the same time preserving high scholarly tone-the credit must go very largely to big, booming, businessy Bachelor of Science Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with "owl")-'13, president of the university since 1930. No Ph.D., he became university comptroller at 29, prexy at 38. Many scholars winced at this raising of administrative talent over learned distinction. But Sproul imagined and organized a great staff of scholars, an academic mammoth...
...obtaining credit at Harvard the statement asserted that "Harvard College will make use of the transcript of records . . . of the Institute . . . in granting academic credit to new students on leave of absence who may want to make use of educational work . . . towards the completion of the work for a bachelor's degree...
...victim was Ben Robertson Jr., a soft-voiced, insatiably curious South Carolina bachelor who loved truth and people. At 39 he had lived a full life, sampling the world: he had newspapered in Hawaii and Australia, clerked in a U.S. consulate in Java, wandered through Borneo and India; he had worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Associated Press (in Washington, London) and for the New York newspaper PM (London Moscow, the Middle East, India); he had written three books praised by critics; the latest: Red Hills and Cotton, published in 1942. Last week, newly rehired...
...nervous, impulsive bachelor, Grauman has not drunk for 30 years. But he smokes four packs of cigarets a day, plays gin rummy for high stakes all night, breakfasts in midafternoon. He loves gags and practical jokes, once got Marcus Loew to give an impassioned pep talk in a darkened room to 75 dummies; once persuaded Charlie Chaplin to enter a Charlie Chaplin impersonation contest. Chaplin won third prize: $1. Grauman credits all his success to "the Big Boss Upstairs"-"God," he says, "does my shows...