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...William W. Flint, head resident at the Annex Quadrangle dormitory, cautioned students in the dining room to walk to and from Harvard Square and Radcliffe Yard in groups of two or three from...
...your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers," a small band of mallards, are settled behind some willows to feed, and out somewhere beyond Flint Hill the windows of a rural school are adorned with cutout paper pumpkins. RICHARD P. BISSELL Dubuque, Iowa
...short-order cook, pushed a fruit cart, clerked in a woolen mill during high-school days. He worked his way through the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, and, after graduation in 1914 as an accountant, became a bookkeeper in G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division at Flint. Next year he became comptroller at 21, the youngest executive in the auto industry. After a hitch in the Army in World War I, Curtice returned to AC Spark Plug, and became its president...
...Curtice was sent "around the corner" in Flint to Buick. The depression had hit the whole industry, but Buick, which had nothing to meet the switch of buyers to lower-priced lines, almost fell apart. In that year it made only 40,621 cars...
...searchers found an empty cave in Antelias valley. Near by he noticed a similar rock formation, its mouth choked with debris. He dug a narrow shaft, and found not a walled-up army lying among its treasures, but at least a few chips of man-worked flint. The chips were spotted by a kibitzing U.S. archeologist, and a Jesuit task force attacked the cave to find what manner of ancient man had lived...