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Before you could repeat that mouthful of title, the group was nicknamed "The Harvard Annex," and the name has stuck fast for 70 years. During that span, Radcliffe has had three presidents, a dozen-odd deans, and a faculty made up either wholly or mostly of Harvard instructors...
...Square was quiet again, except for a few apple-checked young men arriving from Yale, but Soldier's Field was having its biggest afternoon of the season. The pretty girls and the undergraduates (with and without bottles) mingled with players, players' families, and Yalies along the sidelines of the dozen-odd football and soccer games. When the Crimson started piling up victories, football fever began to take hold...
Standard, the fattest of the dozen-odd transcontinental wildcats, started three years ago with just two converted C-47s and $90,000 of borrowed capital. Now it has eight DC-3s and $300,000 in assets, has never had a crackup. A fortnight ago Wildcatter Weiss got a chance to purr: because of a boycott of New York International (Idlewild) Airport by domestic airlines, the airport management hired Standard to fly Governor Thomas E. Dewey to Idlewild for the dedication ceremonies. Last week Weiss asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to certify Standard as a scheduled carrier, said frankly that...
...Wilson, head of Hammermill Paper Mill Co., Edward F. Wilson, head of Wilson & Co., John L. Wilson, head of St. Louis Public Service Co., Laroy W. Wilson, head of Advance Aluminum Castings Co., H. W. Wilson, head of H. W. Wilson Book Co., nor to any of the dozen-odd Wilsons who head other large U.S. companies...
Then American Criminal Investigation agents, tracking down a dozen-odd new U.S. automobiles stolen within recent weeks, became interested. Last week Atanasoff and salesmen were resting from their labors in the Ringstrasse jail. Said Theodore Atanasoff: "I'm just a poor non-Communist lawyer. I've an old mother and father dependent on me. I still don't see how the American military court has jurisdiction, as all the transactions were carried on in the Soviet zone...