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Velluici introduced the resolution to name the area fronting on the Lampoon Yale Square because he wished to honor Elihu Yale, "a great educator and a loyal son of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
This behavior is, of course, most reprehensible, but Vellucci seems to have had a crise de conscience: at yesterday's meeting, he proposed a motion to honor the memory of Elihu Yale by naming the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets "Yale Square." Some memorial to Yale is long over-due in the city of his birth. Vellucci may have had some thoughts of embarassing Councillor Belin (Yale '39) by the measure; the fact that he didn't later his irresponsible style in submitting the measure leads one to suspect it. But if so, Cambridge is for once...
...introducing his motion, Vellucci said he was taking the at the request of the Harvard CRIMSON, which wished to honor Elihu Yale "as a loyal son of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
...splendidly mad. Mocking the Age of Publicity in an essay which notes that Where writers write has become almost as important as What they write (Thomas Wolfe scratched out his manuscripts on refrigerator tops; Jean Kerr worked in the front seat of her Chevrolet), Lamport tops them all with Elihu Linot, who always wrote on the backs of women, starting at the neck and working down. Once his editor eloped with the manuscript. There was no carbon...
...surprise of many a banker, Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed Non-Banker Oren Root, 50, to be New York's new state banking superintendent. Energetic Lawyer Root, who, at 28, helped set off the Willkie-for-President boom, is a grandnephew of Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt, and a son-in-law of Movie Magnate Spyros Skouras. Under New York's new Omnibus Banking Law, Root will rule on the merger applications of some of the world's biggest banks...