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This trend was noted by Master Sergeant Frank J. Carr at the Army recruiting station which handles Metropolitan Boston enlistments. The station's monthly quota has remained steady at about 60; in July, the actual total was 69, in August 79, in September 77, and though October is not yet half over, the total has already reached 77. Perhaps lured by lavishly printed four-color booklets, which note that the Army "guarantees in writing your choice of training BEFORE enlistment," would-be enlistees have been applying at the rate of four for every opening. By far the two most popular...
...After eliminating defending champ Joe Carr and U.S. Airman Ralph Morrow in the British Amateur Golf Championship, grizzled Scot Jimmy Walker, 40, ran out of steam, lost to husky British Walker Cupper Michael Bonallack...
Commencement oratory at big (12,000 students), burgeoning San Francisco State College was striking time-hollowed notes. "You are standing in the portal between academic life and nonacademic life," intoned President Glenn S. Dumke. Then California State Finance Director John E. Carr rose and explained in plain words just what President Dumke meant. Said Carr: "You have been generously subsidized by the citizens of California. Now you will be on the other side. I hope when your time comes to cough up taxes to pay for these things that you will do it not only willingly, but perhaps with...
Calvinistic Compulsion. The Texas to which the Murchison boys returned was changing fast, was no longer just a cornucopia shaped like an oil well. Among the Dallas millionaires, Trammell Crow made his fortune by building and operating warehouses in a dozen states, and Carr P. Collins and his sons got their multimillion-dollar stake in the insurance business. Texas Instruments Chairman Erik Jonsson was busy piling up what eventually became $100 million in electronics, and Leo Corrigan was rapidly multiplying his wealth by building a hotel combine that now stretches from the Bahamas to Hong Kong...
...Burn the Museums!" Inspired by the Marinetti manifesto, a second appeared the next year signed by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini and Giacomo Balla-futurism's big five. Among other things, it declared that THE NAME OF "MAD MAN" WITH WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO GAG ALL INNOVATORS SHOULD BE LOOKED UPON AS A TITLE OF HONOR. The five themselves sounded a bit mad with anti-tradition slogans of "Burn the museums!" and "Drain the canals of Venice!" But their underlying purpose could not have been more serious. "We choose to concentrate...