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Held in connection with the annual wo-day meeting of the University Board of Overseers, the affair will keynote addresses by President Conant, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, John H. Williams, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and Lucius N. Littauer '78 of New York City, donor of the building...
...notch contract bridge teams sat down in Manhattan's Shelton Hotel last week to fight for the most prized team-of-four trophy in their sport, the Vanderbilt Cup, favorites to win were the famed Four Aces and a team led by Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the cup donor. The Four Aces had won this annual event four times; Vanderbilt's team had won once, been runner-up to the Aces twice. Ace Oswald Jacoby was so confident that in the first round he bet $100 to $10 against his opponents, a team that had barely qualified...
...maintain a normal amount of fluid in circulation. It must be sterilized, filtered and typed, just like ordinary blood. Transfusions have been given to nine patients suffering from such diverse ailments as kidney infections, alcoholism, malaria, cancer and gunshot wounds. One man even acted as his own dropsy donor, when Dr. Davis removed 34 ounces of fluid from his stomach, promptly pumped them back into...
...year, including income from his job printing. If he lives far out on the range, like Editor Charles Laflin of the Covert, S. Dak., Advance, he must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first on a patch of freshly tarred pavement and added...
...which is scarcely conducive to the maintenance of faith of whatever sort, Lucius N. Littauer, donor of $2,000,000 to the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration, has managed to celebrate his eightieth birthday with words of good cheer and hope. "I can be classified," he told reporters without wavering, "as one who has confidence for the future in spite of the present...