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Last July, the news turned sour. Williamsburg began to hear ugly rumors about the athletic department. Football Coach Rube McCray and Basketball Coach Barney Wilson suddenly resigned. At that point, the Board of Visitors decided to investigate. The board found that, as far back as 1949, the athletic department had been falsifying the high-school transcripts of promising athletes to make sure they would get into the college. And last spring, Dean Nelson Marshall had found that the department had been giving unearned credits in physical education. But it was not until July, just before the two coaches resigned, that...
...Face in the Window. Her oldest sister, Beatrice, was married to a New York photographer named Larry Tarr, and when17-year-old Ava came visiting in 1940, he was fascinated by his sister-in-law, shot dozens of pictures of her. Enter the agent of fate, one Barney Duhan, then a clerk in Loew's New York legal department. One day Duhan's eyes were arrested by the picture of a girl in Photographer Tarr's show window. "It was the face of the kind of girl you want to marry," recalls Duhan. "It was vibrant...
Neither Sir Ernest nor his heir needs fear that the prime source of the dynasty's power will ever diminish. One of the first great Randlords, old Barney Barnato, put it tersely, many years before Flapper Lorelei Lee: "Women are born every day, and men will always buy diamonds for women...
...newspapers. As a result, Kilgore in 1945 moved up to the presidency of Dow Jones & Co., Inc., owner of the paper, and worked to expand W.S.J. into a national newspaper for businessmen. This week, with thriving editions in Dallas and San Francisco as well as Manhattan, 42-year-old Barney Kilgore moved into the Midwest. Dow Jones bought the Chicago Journal of Commerce (circ. 33,960) from Bernard J. Ridder (who also publishes the New York Journal of Commerce). Price: well over the $1,250,000 Ridder paid...
...Chicago edition, as in its South and West Coast ones, W.S.J. will print much the same news and features as in Manhattan, rely on local staffers to fill in regional news. With a nationwide circulation of 157,491, Barney Kilgore expects the Chicago edition to push the figure up to more than...