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...course to serve in France in the 304th Field Artillery, was wounded and rose to captain, was noted for commanding the best-drilled, best-disciplined battery in the 304th. Afterward he went to Wall Street as a corporation lawyer, soon was a partner in the investment-banking firm of Dillon, Read. In 1928 he sold his partnership (for a reputed $2,000,000). He started his own company and made money during the depression by specializing in small stock-&-bond issues while most underwriters piled up deficits waiting in vain for the return of the boom...
George Boston, who started out as a tailback but has been converted into an end to bolster the flank squad, comes from Dean Academy and makes his home in Swampscott. He was a marked man from the moment he hit Dillon Field House, partly because of his passing ability, and partly because of his running talents...
Across the Charles River is the Business School. Here also, in the shadow of the Stadium, are the Dillon Field House, and the Carey and Briggs Cages. Nearby are tennis courts, soccer football-baseball, and lacrosse fields, and the Nowell Boat House...
With their first meet, the University Handicap, next Friday, Coach Jaakko Mikkola's cross country runners will start their formal season next Monday with a meeting at 4:45 o'clock in Dillon. Although the squad practiced regularly during the second session of Summer School, this meeting, at which Jim Reid, 1928 cross country captain and Harvard record holder the for the two-mile, will speak, will serve to organize the team and explain fall plans to new Freshmen and those who have not been in Summer School...
...scrap started when the exchange jolted its members, bluntly told them not to help nonmember firm Dillon, Read & Co. sell 50,000 shares of Standard Oil of Indiana in the over-the-counter market. Everybody saw red. Exchange members were sore because they were cut out of a few badly needed dollars they had hoped to make on the deal; Dillon, Read and other non-members were griped because they lost the expert help of exchange members, had to do the job all by themselves. For starting this rumpus the exchange had plenty reason: it wants to keep all sales...