Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphy compiled the second highest average score per meet in both the Ivy League and the New England College Rifle League this season, and he tied for first ranking in the Greater Boston College Rifle League. He has also maintained the highest per-meet average in the Rifle Club for the last three years...
...cars around the Bardot-shaped coast of the French Riviera. He is also the most loudly acclaimed young violinist to emerge from France since the late Ginette Neveu, who died in a 1949 plane crash. Last week Violinist Ferras turned up in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and from the moment he launched into Brahms's familiar D-Major Concerto, it was clear that he had a blazing, romantic vision and the controlled technique to carry...
...Spike" Canham had a hint of what might happen. A member of the chamber's board of directors for the past 5½ years, he had been asked in January whether he would accept a nomination for the post. Canham went back to Boston, searched his own mind, and huddled with colleagues for several days to determine whether accepting would compromise his integrity as an editor. He decided that it would not, gave the green light...
...became the Monitor's managing editor at 37, its editor in 1945. A Christian Scientist who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, Canham is one of journalism's busiest men. Besides editing the Monitor, he writes a column on international affairs, moderates a weekly TV program in Boston called Starring the Editors. He also heads Columbia University's National Manpower Council, advises the Government on information work. He was named chamber president, says Canham, because "they wanted me to put into words some of the ideas they feel to be the beliefs and problems of U.S. business...
This idea, called revolving credit or check credit, was pioneered by Boston's First National Bank in 1955. Last week its Vice President Harold B. Hassinger told the Chicago meeting that profits from the plan not only run 50% higher than on personal loans, but that it has helped boost personal loan business 40% by popularizing credit. Said Hassinger: "Don't be surprised if this plan does ultimately displace most everything but the open charge account with the grocer and other retail outlets...