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...control of Toledo's Air-Way Electric Appliance Corp. (vacuum cleaners). Lamb teamed up with ex-Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, began buying Air-Way stock last spring to gain control. When the management found out about the plan, it tried to merge with Manhattan's Firth Carpet Co., but Lamb blocked the deal. Then Lamb went to court and forced the company to call a special shareholders' meeting to consider adding ten Lamb backers to the company's nine-man board of directors...
Alexander Mackendrick's High and Dry is very possibly the funniest Baling comedy to date, a picture as salty and Scottish as a whelk in the Firth of Forth. A sort of sister picture to his Tight Little Island, this one might be called a tragedy of plumbing...
...Roderick Firth, associate professor of Philosophy, will give Philosophy 3, an introductory course to the problems of philosophy and two other courses called the Theory of Knowledge and Types of Ethical Theory...
...anybody can find sensible answers for these puzzles, Sir John seems to be the man. Born in Greenock, on Scotland's Firth of Clyde, he "drifted into accountancy," probably because his father was in it. Sir William McLintock, head of Britain's famous Thomson, McLintock firm, soon drafted the "drifter" as his protégé, moved him rapidly up to a partner. During World War II, Morison ran the Ministry of Supply's financial affairs and served on the vital War Damage Commission, which decided how much should be paid to thousands of blitzed British property...
...associate professor is Professor Roderick Firth of Swarthmore College. A graduate of Haverford College, Firth received his M.A. here in 1940 and his Ph.D. in 1943. His field is Epistomology--The Theory of Knowledge...