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Died. Antonin Besse, 71, French merchant prince who made a fortune bringing the riches of the Middle East (skins, coffee, frankincense, myrrh) to Europe; of lung congestion; in Elgin, Scotland. He emerged from self-chosen anonymity 'in 1949, when an alert newsman discovered that it was Besse who had given Oxford ?1,500,000-biggest gift from a foreigner, second largest in modern times-to set up a new college, St. Antony's. Object : to foster Anglo-French relations and further the characteristic he admired most in Oxonians-"grit...
...story Fifth Avenue building, decorated more like a Renaissance palace than a school. In the past 17 years Hartman has handed out awards to about 50 companies for "exemplifying the best in American design." Sample winners: Ford, Motorola, Ronson lighters, General Electric (for a plastic furniture covering), Kaiser-Frazer, Elgin, Parker, United Air Lines (for its Mainliner interiors), Packard, the Chicago Tribune (for "being inspirational to students of design...
Many so honored have shown their appreciation by contributing to the Fashion Academy's scholarship fund. The Ford Motor Co., winner in 1949 and 1950, sent Hartman a check for $25,200 to pay for scholarships. Motorola, Elgin and other winners have also become donors to the scholarship fund...
Smith, however, is not immune to accepting $100 for an evening of basketball, in addition to an Elgin watch and a G.E. clock-radio, or to travelling in chartered airplanes. Accordingly, he played six games last week with the collegians and led them to their first victory over the Globetrotters in this series with a 22-point performance in Buffalo last Tuesday night. This, too, was a record, briefly. Paul Arizin's 21 points, scored last year, were the previous high. Another collegian scored 24 in Kansas City the other night to break Smith's record and pace...
...Republican Party-which has not had a winning campaign slogan since 1946's "Had Enough?"- last week reached back to the 19th Century in search of another. In Elgin, Ill., Republican National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson suggested that in view of the RFC scandal (see Investigations), there was nothing more appropriate for the G.O.P. m 1952 than the phrase used by the Democratic Party in 1884. The slogan: "Throw the Rascals...