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...University of Pennsylvania (enrollment: 16,000) last week found a more substantial reward for good teachers than a pat on the back. To each of 20 faculty members, for excellence in undergraduate teaching, went a check for $1,000, reportedly the first such bonus bestowed by a U.S. college or university...
...meter champion), knows the formula like his arithmetic tables. This year he realized that the formula assumes the boat will carry a mainsail, allows the use of jibs of any size without penalty. By weighing anchor without a mainsail for the Vineyard race, Luders got a bonus of an extra four hours' handicap. Instead of using Storm's normal headsails, he hoisted a gigantic genoa jib that was fully 34 ft. at the foot, had an area of 716 sq. ft.-more than the regular mainsail and fore-triangle combined...
Harried Dodger officials have often wondered if the strong-armed kid from Brooklyn was worth the strain on their nerves. An architecture major at the University of Cincinnati, Koufax was signed as a $14,000 bonus baby at 19. In his second start, he struck out 14 Cincinnati Reds. But he soon developed streaks of harrowing wildness, last year led the league in wild pitches with 17 (but hit only one batter). Explains one Dodger coach: "When Koufax is wild, the ball not only is not near the plate-it's not near the batter...
...thereby lining the jacket of General Manager Lane, who gets a bonus of 5?a head for every customer the Indians draw at home over 800,000. Through week's end, the Indians had played to 1,009,362, giving Lane $10,478.10 in nickels in addition to his salary of some...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Pelham D. Glassford, 76, leathery Washington police chief when the 1932 Bonus Army marched on the Capitol; in Laguna Beach, Calif. A combat general in World War I, Glassford faced the sternest test of his career when 11,000 ragged, jobless veterans descended on Washington to demand bonuses not due them until 1945. He controlled them with tact and courage while Congress marked time, dug $773 out of his own pocket to buy them food...