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Hundred Proof. A West Side Chicago machinist's son, Ed Lahey went to work at 14 as an office boy, later was a shipping clerk, hod carrier and railroad yard clerk before he landed his first newspaper job in 1927, on the now defunct Glen Ellyn, Ill. weekly Beacon. Two years later, after reporting stints with the East St. Louis Journal and the Associated Press, Lahey was hired by the Chicago Daily News, "the only paper I ever wanted to work...
Kenneth E. Thompson '57, president of the now defunct HCL, issued a statement agreeing to immediate unification under the name of the NCC, but said the name change "must be made at the earliest possible occasion...
...weapon is to write her enemies-and friends-into her books. Despite her demurrers, the game of "spot-the-model" goes on. Experts in this game can tell that Taub in The Oasis is really the editor of a certain highbrow magazine; another highbrow editor (his journal is now defunct) won his McCarthy Purple Heart as Macdougal Macdermott in the same book, but both remain good and gallant friends of their satirist...
...slim, tall red headed Irishman from South Boston. The previous fall he had entered the now defunct Lawrence School of Engineering at Harvard as a mature, 26 year old freshman who had spent five years with the U. S. Engineering Corps...
Critics of the Lipscomb bill cite the failure of the now-defunct Committee of the Legislative Budget, set up in 1946. That group, however, wrote its own budget, arbitrarily setting a ceiling on expenditures without even investigating the needs which the Bureau of the Budget had carefully calculated. After having to pass supplementary bills amounting to six billion dollars over the ceiling, Congress dropped the Committee. Lipscomb's proposed committee, however, would not aim at writing an a priori budget. It would simply determine the best fiscal policy by correlating the reports of the various committees on revenue, appropriations...