Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Committee co-chairman Isaac Druker '58, said last night that about 1,500 persons had pledged blood, but past experience indicated that the Red Cross would be "lucky" to collect from 40 percent of the pledgees in the five day campaign ending Saturday...
Long a "pushover for the literary strivings of small children," Smith decided to collect other samples and put them into a book. The result: Write Me a Poem, Baby (Little, Brown; $2.95), which tells quite a bit about the forthright world of children. To get his material, Smith culled magazines, wrote teachers, interviewed parents. His literature covers letters, short stories, poems, essays and notes passed in class. He even included the early efforts of some literary lions. At six, for instance, Novelist Jean Stafford wrote an ode to gravel...
...Radcliffe Student Council voted Monday to collect monetary contributions in each dormitory, to aid the students of Hungary in their fight for freedom...
...Southwestern Bell, was King Van Lines, Inc. a big Wichita trucking outfit operating from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The evidence: a photostatic copy of a King interoffice memo which Bell's lawyers got from a disgruntled trucker that proved King was working a switch on the old "collect call" routine. Said the memo from King's vice president John Kelso: "I know the method, I think, where we can save 30.89% immediately on our phone calls. Coupled with one or two other ideas we should be able to cut our communications bill by 50%." The memo went...
Since the memo went on to outline other coded initial messages (L for loaded, H for half loaded, R for three-quarters loaded, etc.), and since Bell records showed a large number of collect calls refused by King, the phone company thought it had a good case, will ask the court for a permanent injunction and $6,000 damages. If it wins the case, the first such court test, Southwestern Bell hopes it will serve as an expensive example to other toll cheaters. Said the phone company grimly: "We will study cases of other suspected violators ... we will take such...