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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same foursome that provided one of the biggest thrills of the K of C meet when it almost nailed Yale in the freshman mile relay, will probably perform in this event again. They are John Packard, Ronnie Berman, Tom McGrath, and Ed Grutzner...
Charlie Castle worked his way through college, got on Broadway where critics called him "The Van Gogh of the American Stage" because he acted with a "kind of Christian fervor." Then Charlie went out to Hollywood where he became the biggest star in pictures. He marries a girl he loves, who loves him, and whom he admires because she's of the landed aristocracy...
...biggest long-range need is for research, Hirsh believes. Science still does not know why some people can drink safely and others cannot. The underlying cause may be psychological (e.g., immaturity) or physiological (e.g., a constitutional weakness). Excessive drinking costs the U.S. $1 billion a year in lost wages, jails, relief, etc., but the total spent for research in alcoholism is less than $500,000. Says Hirsh: "This glaring paradox continues year in & year out despite the fact that excessive and problem drinking affects the lives of almost as many people as tuberculosis, cancer and infantile paralysis combined...
...market for new securities also looked better than at any time in months. In two days last week, underwriters floated $30 million worth of new common and preferred stocks in five issues. The biggest: $20.4 million worth of Bethlehem Steel common, $8.1 million worth of Philadelphia's prosperous, long closely held Rohm & Haas 'chemical works.* Wall Streeters, who had long been telling one another that risk capital was all but dead, thought that they felt a stronger pulse...
...this stir was the result of a wideawake promotion by the onetime sleepy cotton industry. In plugging these apparently unimportant items it had a highly important purpose. It hoped to win a nip & tuck race with papermakers for what has usually been one of the biggest markets for U.S. cotton textiles (bags absorbed about 8% of all cotton textile production before...