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Along with dollars came scholars: Stanford is raiding blue-chip faculties all over the East. This fall it is taking on Yale's entire 40-year-old Center of Alcohol Studies. It captured American Historian David Potter after 19 years at Yale, Mathematician Edward G. Begle after 19 years at Yale, German Historian Gordon Craig after 20 years at Princeton, Novelist-Critic Albert J. Guerard (Stanford '34) after 23 years at Harvard. Among this fall's other acquisitions: Albert H. Hastorf, chairman of Dartmouth's psychology department; Emile Despres, chairman of Williams' economics department...
...Three (which was just 2½ shooting days from completion) was carted to Munich University Clinic, where emergency surgery repaired serious abdominal injuries. Next morning, relieved to hear that his promising property would be back before the cameras by mid-October and with nary a chip in his classic profile, Director Wilder recalled, "We kidded him just four days ago about his fast driving, but Horst only said, 'Don't worry. I'm not going to die like James Dean...
Though the stock market is no longer as faithful a mirror of the total economy as it once was, it inevitably reflected some of the caution. While the Dow-Jones index of blue chip industrials last,week inched back toward its alltime high of 706, many of the highly speculative "glamour" or "futuristic" issues stood far below their recent giddy peaks. Some had been selling at 100 or more times earnings. For one list of ten selected glamour stocks-(see chart), the fall-off since May amounted to nearly...
...Hewitt sailed for America to tutor the children of a Tuxedo Park family and then to teach small groups of children who met in socialite New York apartments. She started Miss Hewitt's Classes in 1920, backed by loans (soon repaid, with interest) from the parents of blue-chip pupils: Astors, Biddies, Vanderbilts. Whitneys, Harrimans, Pulitzers...
Pakistan needed an economic development program, Morton Foods Inc. of Dallas wanted a better potato chip, and General Electric had run into problems building an optical scanner. For help, all three turned to the same place: Arthur D. Little, Inc., a 74-year-old Cambridge, Mass., company that has nothing to sell but brains...