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...baby bonus for graduate students would, of course, require a slight expansion of Harvard's budget. It might also result in continuous disruption of academic endeavor. But it would tend to increase the educated classes. And it is, at least, more realistic than Dean Elder's present program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baby Bonus | 10/9/1956 | See Source »

...Grape-Juice Navy." Since its outset, Welch's has flourished mightily at the expense of winebibbers. Though Thomas Welch at first was willing to write off grape juice as a Christian endeavor, demand from churches and teetotalers soon forced the company into bigger quarters at Westfield, N.Y., the self-anointed "grape-juice capital of the world." Founder Welch's son, square-jawed "Dr. Charles," ran the company "as much as a temperance agency as a profit-making concern," capitalized on anti-liquor sentiment with the slogan: "Get the Welch habit-it's one that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Almost Like Wine | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...working of the magazines as "a great cooperative endeavor" in which the non-academic reader is merely an "eavesdropper" in the literary communications between isolated academics in universities scattered all over the country

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors See Magazines In Two Distinct Lights | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

...been famous enough. But IBM was only a fraction of his true measure. He was one of the first of a new breed of U.S. businessmen who realized that their social responsibilities ran far beyond their own companies. A man with consuming interest in virtually every area of human endeavor, he had a rare ability to translate his thoughts into action. His entry in Who's Who in Amer ica was for years the longest of all, but, unlike many joiners, he worked hard at everything he gave his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Soldier | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Batchelder became '31's first president after a hotly contested election, and Phillips Finlay and Dillon were elected to Vice-President and Secretary, respectively. Finlay also found success in other fields of endeavor as he was named freshman golf captain. In the 1928 U.S. Amateur, Finlay advanced as far as the semi-finals, where he was finally put out by Bobby Jones...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: The Class of '31: A Brief Look into the Past | 6/12/1956 | See Source »

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