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Children would rather read Tom Sawyer than The Rover Boys any day, if they had the choice. Miss Phyllis R. Fenner is sure of it, and she ought to know. For nearly 20 years tweedy, witty little Miss Fenner has presided over a remarkable library in the elementary schools of Manhasset, L.I. Miss Fenner has a sympathetic ear for what children really like, and her library is a favorite hangout of Manhasset moppets. In "Our Library" (John Day; $1.75), Miss Fenner explains: "Give the children the adventure they crave, but give them books written with sincerity and honesty...
Like a diamond in a coal bin this week glittered the annual report of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, biggest of all Wall Street brokers (TIME, Aug. 4). Although the security business is awful, Merrill Lynch, which lost $308,000 in the last nine months of 1940, earned a smacking...
More was soon known of the educator's finances. Three banks in New Orleans and Baton Rouge disclosed that they had just lent Dr. Smith $500,000 on notes signed by himself as president of L. S. U. The big brokerage house of Fenner & Beane in New Orleans had just asked him to withdraw $375,000 in L. S. U. bonds which he had posted as collateral for gambling in wheat futures. The State Attorney General announced that these notes were worthless and the bonds were unauthorized...
...East Baton Rouge Parish (County) Grand Jury indicted Dr. Smith for embezzling $100,000. Broker Charles Fenner said that Jimmy Smith in his gamblings had acted for perhaps a dozen "friends." First to be so identified was small-fry Business Manager Edgar N. Jackson, who had put $2,000 on the chance that a European war would boom wheat prices...
...following members were elected: J. C. Bequaert, Chareles F. Brooks, Austin M. Brues '26, Bennett F. Buie '34, Fenner A. Chace, Jr. '30, Carleton A. Chapman, Arthur S. Coffinberry, G. E. S., Ernest B. Dane, Jr. '27, Albert L. Delisle, Charles S. Denny, 2G, Robert K. Diven, Jesse T. Dunn, 3G, Ralph Emerson '33, 4G, Howard W. Emmons '37, Sidney Farber, Med. '27, George E. Gardner, 4M, Ivan A. Getting, Junior Fellow, Richard H. Goodwin '33, 4G, Lewis H. Kleinholz, Lioyd W. Law, 3G, Jacob E. Jansen, 5G, Charles C. Lund, victor G. Mooradian, G.E.S., Vincent E. Morgan, 5G, Frederick...