Word: chips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Old Himmelfarber. What comes of it all? Says Morton: "The college fraternity is highly regarded by manufacturing and retail jewelers, dealers in seed pearls and chip diamonds, and, naturally, by the ketchup industry. [But] the principal beneficiary [is] the executive secretary ... of the national fraternity itself. It's a life job, and because no one really knows how [he] got it, there is no ready way of getting rid of him . . . [His] entire life is spent in confecting doleful yet enthusiastic appeals for funds...
Fullbacks Chip Gannon, Paul Shafer and Sam Adams will have to spin with their eyes closed before the more intricate plays can be worked in. "We're a little behind schedule on offense," Valpey reports, "although we may know our fundamentals better than some of the other Ivy colleges...
...with the $178 million which Congress had voted in shipping subsidies, shippers were afraid to take a chance on the big, fast ships which they need to compete on the North Atlantic and the U.S. needs for defense purposes (i.e., military transports). Last week, with the Navy offering to chip in, it looked as if the shipping program was finally ready to get up steam...
...brothers gather their gossip and opinion by a busy round of telephoning, lunching and buttonholing sources. Then they meet to decide who writes the next column, or whether they should do it jointly. Their contacts are largely second-level Government men like Harvardman Charles ("Chip") Bohlen and ECA's Dick Bissell, an old Grottie of Joe's class. The Alsops think press conferences a waste of time, go to Harry Truman's only a couple of times a year, just "to see what the President looks like...
Dolph Samborshi, guide of the Crimson's diamond fortunes, will shake up his forces for the event, making liberal use of several Jayvee ballplayers who wound up their season last week. Chip Gannon may be displaced from his season-long post at center field by another footballer--Hal Moflie, by name. Moflie hit .343 for Lloyd Harper's Jayvees, while Gannon's average now amounts...