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Closed College was formed in 1718 by a group of clam-diggers and oystermen from Mystic, Conn., who were alarmed at the irresponsible radicalism exhibited by the other colleges of the day. Chief among the earlier contributions to the infant institution was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Closed, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the college in his honor...
...Clam Up. Gould also testified-and showed canceled checks to prove it-that when he refused to pay in cash, Flug and Corey told him to make out a check to one Adrian Roman. On the basis of that and other evidence, the committee suspected that Roman was a peddler for Flurey's high-priced nickel-and in many cases had actually pushed the price up some himself. There was evidence that Flurey would tell its regular customers that it had no nickel, said Gould, then sell what it had to Roman at a markup. Roman would then...
Leonard Lyons, a lawyer before he turned Broadway columnist, last week stepped up to the bar in Manhattan's federal courthouse to clam a privilege that many a newsman has claimed in the past. The principle underlying his claim: the relations between a reporter and his various sources are confidential-or, as Columnist Lyons said, "Sacred...
Pearl River, N.Y. is only 22 miles from Times Square, but it is fully as quiet-or was until last week-as Moccasin, Mont., Husband, Pa., or Clam, Va. Last week, as everyone in Pearl River will remember ("You can say that again, Mac")-as everyone in Pearl River will remember, Frank Perkins, a peaceful, pippin-faced youth of 21, went crow-hunting along the brackish banks of the Hackensack River...
...World War I, Sir Ernest got a five-year exclusive sales contract covering the rich diamond fields of Germany's former colony in South-West Africa. He used this tremendous lever to pry his way into the clam-tight De Beers syndicate. In 1929, after secretly buying up 20% of De Beers' shares, he took over the syndicate. It keeps its tight control of diamonds by persuading any who find new fields to join the syndicate and reap the benefits of its controlled prices...