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...retired, dammit," says leonine old Amadeo Peter Giannini, chairman of the board of California's huge Bank of America, whenever reporters note that he still bosses his 478-branch colossus.-But 73-year-old A. P. still goes to work in his walnut-paneled San Francisco office every day; he has been "retiring" ever since he was 31, when he decided that he had earned enough in his stepfather's fruit and vegetable business to take life easy. Actually no one believes his beloved bank will be run by anyone else so long as A. P. can draw...
...York University, which claims to be the world's largest,* is not a colossus in sport. But year in & out N.Y.U. has consistently produced great track athletes. Most extraordinary has been its succession of superb milers: Frank Nordeil, Leslie MacMitchell and this season's freshman sensation, Frank Dixon. The greatest miler of them all, Glenn Cunningham, did his best running when he was a Ph.D. student at N.Y.U...
...their building in groups of ten or 15 (except for first-floor visits to pay dues, basement trips to bowl), see a façade of marble and glass brick, electric eyes to signal fouls by bowlers, a cocktail lounge with mahogany bar and deeply cushioned leather seats-a colossus of chrome and indirect lighting. Total cost...
Even if all the new certificates are granted Pan American will still be the colossus of the Caribbean. Last week it announced plans to operate still more frequent service, including a second run daily between Miami and the Canal Zone...
Harvard, to this City Hall defender, is no big overgrown colossus, but an irresponsible, arrogant institution, that has to be tolerated since "education is a necessary thing." Mickey will talk any time about the underhanded way Harvard forced hundreds of people out of their homes in order to build some of the Houses, or the way the college sits complacently by paying nothing for the expensive upkeep of streets and sewerage. Yet his most stinging criticisms are saved for the students themselves. "Students of yesterday were honest, but that's not so today. They're more snobbish than they used...