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...Moscow was bright with flags and bond-drive posters. A crowd of 10,000 turned out. The parade was fine: there was a reasonable facsimile of George Washington, a flock of sheep in the Future Fanners of America entry, and a church window made of colored paper. The winning float was a 12-ft., papier-mache Statue of Liberty with a flask of plasma in her right hand and a sheaf of bonds under her left arm. One student marcher confessed that his crim son Cossack coat was really a girl's bed jacket, and one of his medals...
Crew: As usual, it should be power-houses Winthrop and Eliot battling for the top. Both consistently float three full boats. There is a strong possibility of instituting 150 pound crews this year, a move which could challenge the Elephant-Puritan dominance. Kirkland and Eliot have already been out on the river...
...banking, two firms have long been known as the Hatfields and the McCoys. One is Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co., which staunchly fights for competitive bidding for security issues; the other is Manhattan's Morgan Stanley & Co., which just as staunchly believes that the best way to float securities is to negotiate a price with the issuer...
...jump on skis is not merely a leap into space. It might also be called flying without a motor, where the jumper understands completely how to utilize the air resistance so as to float, so to speak, on the "press" of the air . . . The sensation lasts only a few seconds, but it feels like an eternity...
...Sandpoint used slot money for a new sewage project. Kellogg spent $40,000 of slot funds for flood control. On the private side, Coeur d'Alene's Athletic Round Table built $100,000 clubrooms, donated thousands to the Boy Scouts, and a few weeks ago built the float which Idaho entered in President Eisenhower's inaugural parade...