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...such eminence, Granddaughter Ruth, now 43, accepted her new stewardship with both humility and respect for tradition. "The Chattanooga Times," she wrote in a statement for the editorial page, "continues under the direction of the same family that has guided its path since 1878. It will be my earnest endeavor that the Chattanooga Times shall serve this area in every way that a responsible newspaper can, mindful always that it shall 'give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of any party, sect or interests involved...
...time, a number of students complained that they had plenty of referrals from the Employment Office and that the new HSA agency would merely duplicate the service and add a booking fee. HSA insisted, however, that its endeavor would not have a negative effect, and there has been no indication that...
...further collapse of undergraduate education into craft guilds in the image of the Faculty. Sheer necessity requires a closely co-ordinated and comprehensive undergraduate program which will ensure that every Harvard graduate understand, with some degree of sophistication, what is going on in the major fields of serious endeavor. Peter A. Fine...
...been bombed, strafed and shelled all day. Its rough-stone houses were now rubble, its fields aflame and littered with dead cattle. Looking down on this devastation, General George Smith Patton Jr. suddenly raised his arms to the sky. "Compared to war," he cried, "all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love...
...Washington the U.S. Tax Court made it plain that if a retired businessman wants to turn his longtime hobby into work and use it as a tax deduction, he had better make sure it is a genuine income-producing endeavor. Retired General Motors Executive Martin C. McGowan owes $19,864 in taxes for 1957-59, said the court, because in those years he deducted more than $40,000 for cameras, film and travel costs on two African safaris and trips to India, the Far East and Alaska. McGowan, who earned $53,819 in his last full year (1956) with...