Word: comstock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours. Pacific Huts' founders took about that much time to slap their company together last year. Its president, an ex-Buick salesman, Frank Hobbs, was then head of the Colotyle Corp. (a wallboard manufacturer now making bathroom and shower assemblies for Henry Kaiser); its vice president, George K. Comstock, owned a Seattle neon-sign business...
...Armed Forces. He tried to see ahead. Editors on the Eastern Front, Editors on the Western Front, Editors--. Now who will fill the flowing bowl and, more important, mother the Freshmen, he wondered. Who would discover the WAVES while they were still but ripples in the caves of Comstock? Who could smell out the wiles of the Satevepost soon enough to scoop PM? Who could squeeze out tears so well as Dan, describing the PBH mites waiting wetly for their mothers to finish defense work? Who would replace Hal and Roy in shoveling the track from Plympton Street...
Radcliffe today has the Harvard faculty and signature on diplomas but no other tic-up. And according to President Ada L. Comstock that's the best arrangement. "We have the advantages of close association without the disadvantages of merging," she says, "we have our own college life, the good points of a small college, and the girls get a chance at the extra-curricular leadership that they'd otherwise miss...
...curriculum, which contains only Harvard courses and omits just a few. Radcliffe would as soon think of a home economics course as Harvard would one in welding, but the war may bring about even that upheaval. For women are pouring into defense work of all types, and Miss Comstock says they could place each girl five times over in jobs at graduation...
...story for that: the lecturer got so darn sick of the plodding, noting, reactionless class that he dove off into a fantastic peroration. His class ended with fancy flying far from fact in a completely imaginative vein. And the Radcliffe students calmly took down every word. But, as Miss Comstock points out, Radcliffe need not worry about its academic reputation, despite the girl who wondered to her professor why she didn't get good marks: "I take absolutely voluptuous notes...