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...issues: Yale & Towne's insistence on a return to the open shop; its refusal to offer any increase except one based on overtime. The 77-year-old Stamford plant had accepted a wartime maintenance of membership contract under protest. Now, labor leaders charged, the company was trying to "bust the union." (Rather than recognize a union, Yale & Towne closed its Detroit plant after a prolonged sit-down strike...
Woodrow Wilson was finally accepted as a great man by his old university, not one of whose many empty niches held a memorial to Princeton's most famed alumnus and president. President Harold W. Dodds, accepting a Jo Davidson bust, paid a long-delayed tribute which it is now safe to pay, even in Princeton: "Woodrow Wilson's contribution to Princeton," he said, "has been surpassed by no one in the 200 years of her history...
...Hall" in 1900, gets nominations from the public before every quinquennial election, has its Senate of professors and university officials second the nominations, sends the names to some 100 distinguished citizens (geographically scattered), who then do the electing. If somebody puts up the money, each winner gets a bronze bust in a colonnade in The Bronx...
...neckline was definitely down: most noteworthy feature was the "Restoration bosom," in both evening and daytime dresses. Lucien Lelong hailed it as the "rediscovery of the shape of the body, emphasizing the bust." His black crepe daytime dress, Cythère, cost $360, and his evening dress, "Amphytrite," looked like a revival of the old hourglass figure. Lelong dubbed it the mermaid figure...
...three years, he splurged $360,000 for yearlings, spent a lot more on such older nags as Valdina Orphan ($100,000), Attention ($55,000) and Rounders ($50,000). His prize bust was the $66,000 spent for Pericles as a yearling in 1943. Pericles' hooves proved too brittle to carry his outsized weight well; he has never run a race...