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Sand & Cotton. Pacific Far East was founded by a group of businessmen- who wanted to cash in on plentiful cargoes and scarce bottoms. To run the company, they hired American President Lines Vice President Thomas E. Cuffe (rhymes with rough), 55, a Kansas-born Californian who learned the ropes of the shipping business with the old Dollar Line...
Berkeley's Daily Californian was sharply critical of the University administration for accepting what it called "the nebulous Burns-Committee program...
...Paris' pint-sized Roland Garros Stadium, American Singles Champion Tony Trabert ran Californian Art Larsen all over a wet and sloppy court to take the French Clay Court Tennis Championship, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1. Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly turned the tournament into an American triumph by overpowering Mme. Ginnette Bucaille...
...Bennett Archambault, 44, moved over from the M. W. Kellogg Co. (a Pullman Inc. subsidiary that builds equipment for oil refineries) to become president and chief executive officer of Stewart-Warner Corp. (lubricating equipment, television, electronic products, auto parts, heating plants, etc.). A Californian, Archambault grew up in Montana, attended Georgia Tech, graduated from M.I.T., joined Kellogg in 1935 and worked his way up to vice president and general manager. During World War II, he headed the European division of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, won U.S. and British decorations for pioneering new weapons and equipment...
...modern artists who feel the need to express their religious faith. On this and the following page are recent works by two such skilled and devout moderns. The mosaic Station of the Cross (above] was done for Mt. Angel Abbey at St. Benedict, Ore. by a 55-year-old Californian named Louisa Jenkins. The stained-glass Sermon from the Boat (overleaf) is a replica detail of a window in St. Ann's Chapel of Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., designed by School-of-Paris Painter Andre Girard...