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...chief aim of undergraduate education is to discover what it means to be a man. This has always to be done in personal individual terms. A college will be strong, therefore, only where those studies flourish whose principal value is to arouse such awareness and where they are taught with charm and vigar and win respect...
With a loud flourish of trumpets, the Liebmann Breweries (fourth largest in U.S.) announced that next year's Miss Rheingold, elected over some 1,200 other sudsy beauties by the nation's beer-lovers, will be elfish Nancy Woodruff, 21, a homespun girl from Oakland, Calif. But what really made Nancy newsworthy was her affinity for fluids: she was last year's Miss Anti-Freeze...
...chief executive officer of Fred Harvey, Inc., mid-and-far-western restaurant and hotel chain; of an intestinal blockage; in Chicago. Born the year his father opened the first Harvey restaurant at the Santa Fe Railroad station in Topeka, Kans., Byron Harvey grew up with the chain, watched it flourish as his father staffed it with the best-looking waitresses he could find. He succeeded to the presidency himself in 1928, in 26 years tripled the volume of business, served 30 million meals a year in Harvey restaurants, hotels and shops...
After doggedly gulping innumerable glasses of milk for photographers, Mendes finished up his U.S. visit with a typical flourish. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, he prophesied that Western European nations will ratify the Paris accords by March or April. "Why then should we not decide that a four-power conference be held, in May, for instance?" he asked. In the meantime, as evidence of good faith, perhaps Russia could help create "a climate of confidence" by giving Austria its long delayed sovereignty...
...pardoned ten years later by New York Governor John Dix (he died in 1940). By turning state's evidence, Jones got his freedom. In Houston, having opened with an endowment of some $10 million from the estate of William Marsh Rice, Rice Institute has continued to grow and flourish. Last week in Baytown, 40 miles from Rice Institute, an old recluse finished the deed he tried to do in jail 54 years ago. At 79, onetime Valet Charley Jones picked up a pistol and killed himself...