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Jeff Pochop received the Frederick Greeley Crocker trophy which is given to that Harvard football letterman who, in the opinion of his teammates, possesses the initiative, perseverance, courage and selflessness which were demonstrated by Ted Crocker. In recent year it has been recognized as a "Most Valuable Player" designation...
...Crocker Award was established in 1949 by a group of former Harvard football players in honor of the popular 155-pound end of the 1933 Crimson team who was killed while serving on a destroyer in 1944. The LaCroix Award was established in 1950 by friends of Bill LaCroix '42, who died from injuries incurred while serving as a deck officer on the carrier Bunker Hill operating in the Leyte Gulf...
...General Mills, Inc., the nation's largest flour miller ($524 million in sales), who joined the company as a mill hand in 1919, caught the eye of Founder James Ford Bell and became his chief lieutenant, helping expand breakfast foods (Wheaties, Cheerios), push on into convenience foods (Betty Crocker cake mixes) and half a dozen other businesses from chemicals to electronics; of Hodgkin's disease; in Minneapolis...
...manage these things in the depth of the country?" That French Feeling. But the best (and bestselling) American cookbooks are still the basics-The Joy of Cooking, Good Housekeeping, The Boston Cooking School Cookbook (Fannie Farmer), Better Homes & Gardens and Betty Crocker, all of which have sold in the hundreds of thousands. Constantly updated (Betty Crocker and Good Housekeeping both have fresh versions coming out in the autumn), all contain material on high-altitude baking, regional dishes, convenient short cuts, new electrical appliances and so forth, making most specialty books conspicuous superfluities...
...ceremony this morning the educator's degree of Doctor of Laws went to: William C. DeVane, retiring Dean of Yale College; Logan Wilson, former Chancellor of the University of Texas and now President of the American Council on Education; and the Headmaster of Groton, and student of theology John Crocker '22. A Doctorate of Humane Letters was given Hamilton Fish Armstrong, the editor of Foreign Affairs who has been with the quarterly since...