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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum (ret.), 72, who as Pershing's Chief of Staff helped chart allied victory in World War I, was in charge of security and blackouts on the East Coast in World War II; of a heart attack; in his office in the Empire State Building, of which he had been head since 1944; in Manhattan...
...three years, the charging bull has pranced up more than 110 points (see chart), has put on weight despite such hammer blows as 1948's Berlin blockade, 1949's recession, 1950's outbreak of war. Each time, with nothing more than a momentary stumble, it has roared back louder and lustier than ever...
...Westinghouse Electric Corp. made a deal last week to sponsor all 19 of the major college football games to be televised this fall. Under the National Collegiate Athletic Association's "scientifically controlled" plan of strictly rationing games to chart TV's effects on the ticket sales, the colleges will get about $700,000, the balance going to NBC and the ad agency. A TV center like New York, which had as many as four televised games each Saturday last season, will now see only one. Two Saturdays will be completely blacked out. Sponsor Westinghouse also wangled a foresighted...
...wild scare buying after the Korean war, commodity prices went only one way-up. Retail prices faithfully followed them. By last week, the big scare was over in many a commodity. A prime example was wool, which hit a 30-year peak this year (see chart). This week, when wool auctions opened in Sydney, Australia, wool prices were down as much as 15% from June, and more than 50% under February and March highs...
Harvard came out of football practice last spring with a depth chart of sixteen lettermen, five other former varsity replacements, nine promising freshmen, and a half-dozen former jayvees. The line, and particularly defensive play, was woakened by graduation. The backfield is lighter and faster than a year ago, with promising sophomores Dick Clasby (behind Captain Carroll Lowenstein at tailback) and John Tulenko adding a little badly-needed speed...