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Under the presidency of debonair and energetic Robert Finch, it appears that the credit unit accepted bad risks and then kept refinancing them, in the firm's eagerness to expand business. The risks did not show on the audited statement, and Finch unfortunately will never be able to explain. On May 7, his private plane ran into engine trouble and crashed on an approach to the Benton Harbor airport, killing Finch and his immediate family...
...ghastly a thought for you as it is for us, try one of the 9 a.m. gems: English S-115, "Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales" with the delightful Prof. B. J. Whiting; Humanities S-115, "Thought and Literature of the Renaissance" with the debonair Walter J. Kaiser; or Philosophy S-185, "Existentialism," a course not given for the past few years during the winter term. Also at this time is a course never offered before, Comparative Literature S-174, "Modern Greek Literature." This could be one of the most exciting courses of the summer, and is given by a visiting Oxfordian...
...foreign tourists, the Paris cop seems a model of quiet courtesy. He directs them to American Express and Thomas Cook with a debonair salute; he guides gladiatorial traffic with a calm nonchalance. Frenchmen look on le flic quite differently. Apart from their dislike of taking orders from anyone, they know that frequently in the hem of his natty blue cape is sewn enough buckshot to break a man's-and sometimes a woman's-nose. They have seen him wading into a crowd flailing a 6-ft. riot cane like a scythe...
Both individual and team titles are at stake at West Point this weekend. In the individual contest, eyes are on Howe and Niederhoffer, third and fourth ranking squash players in the country. Niederhoffer is out to get the debonair Yalieafter Howe edged him 3-2 at Hemenway last Wednesday...
...their work in a shabby shack sandwiched between the imposing academic buildings on the flower-bordered lawns of Cambridge. In one corner of this laboratory (known locally as The Hut), they had a magpie's nest of old books and model molecules strung like mobiles from the ceiling. Debonair and carefully dressed, Crick always managed to look incongruous there; Watson, tieless, rumpled and far more casual in his dress, fitted the picture perfectly. New Zealand-born Wilkins, tall, blond and courtly in the British manner, worked with Dr. Rosalind Franklin (who died in 1958) in a laboratory in London...