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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name: Ivor B. Clark. His business, which can only be enhanced by a tight-money situation: finding lenders to put up money on propositions that they might ordinarily turn down. Clark, 69, is so good at his job that in half a century he figures he has found close to $1 billion for borrowers. And last week Money Finder Clark was dickering on the biggest deal of his career: arranging the financing for two 90,000-ton. super-economy transatlantic ocean liners. If the German government will give a guarantee for 70% of the costs of the ships, a plan...
Died. Edmund Gwenn, 83, British-born actor who for the last couple of decades invariably played the roles of kindly, puckish old men, won the 1947 Academy Award for best supporting actor as a benign Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street, was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw, who cast him in many of his plays in the early 1900s; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...would hesitate to send Catholics to such schools as Harvard. They feel this is dishonesty, intellectual cowardice, a policy founded on fear and lacking all respectability. The Church, for its part, is primarily interested in men's salvation; it exists as a means towards salvation, and it believes close contact with the Church almost essential for every man who wants to be saved. The individual makes his own choice concerning Harvard, but he chooses with knowledge of his spiritual obligations as a member of the Church--one obligation being, of course, to fulfill his intellectual potential...
Wide geographic distribution is characteristic of both freshmen classes, with all states and 30 foreign countries represented in the Yard, and 38 states and 6 countries at Radcliffe. About one third of each class will receive financial aid, a figure close to that of previous years...
...first volunteer their services. In making these overtures the Office was guided by only two considerations. It sought to get a good distribution of fields; and also to find professors whose past record and current reputation suggested that they might be especially adept in a very close kind of student-teacher situation...