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...ticket agency in a Broadway hotel, moved into boxing by raising $200,000 to help Promoter Tex Rickard stage the Dempsey-Carpentier championship fight in Jersey City in 1921 (the first million-dollar gate). In the '30s he parlayed his exclusive contract with Joe Louis into a 50% chunk of Madison Square Garden's boxing profits, the say-so at every other major arena around New York, thereafter control of almost every worthwhile fight and fighter...
...comparison of the sources of income of faculties shows that whereas two decades ago, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences relied on tuition, fees, and endowments for 89 percent of its income, it now depends on these sources for only 68 percent. A big, 16 percent chunk of income in the form of government contracts for 1952 was not available...
...Revolution is a solid chunk of scholarship, likely to endure as a classical work on its subject. What keeps it from being a great book is Author Ward's self-imposed narrowness of perspective. Had he occasionally fitted the military events into the larger political story, and shown the dependence of battles in Virginia on diplomacy in Paris, his book would have been greatly improved. And he could thereby have suggested that all the marches and musketry added up to the one revolution in modern history which ended not in tyranny but freedom...
Sculptor Zorach took three years to carve his warmly maternal Mother and Child from a three-ton chunk of rose-colored marble. In the sculpting, he ignored the common practice of making a plaster model and translating it into stone mechanically. In an older and more honored tradition, Zorach worked the marble freehand, using a small plaster model only as a guide...
...only other sizable chunk of Littauer's student "body" is the group in the agricultural extension program of John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics and dean of American agrarian economists. Over the past five years, this program has tried to bring a little bit of Harvard influence into many of the six million farm homes in the United States. Picked from state agricultural extension agencies and financed by the Carnegie Corporation, Black's 25 or more students do intensive work in their special farm field, and also dip into the more advanced theory of agricultural economies. These academic...