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Father's Hope. Second daughter of a New York doctor who wanted a son to follow his profession, Elise Strang heard her father say of her: "This one will be my doctor." Dr. Strang died long before his daughter was ready for college, but she kept his fondest hope in mind. In 1896, at 16, she entered the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women & Children...
...first EGA bill had been presented as a calculated and desperate risk; the second with an air of "you can't afford to quit now." Last week EC Administrator Paul Hoffman could point to a record of proud accomplishment. Western Europe's recovery "has exceeded our fondest hope," Hoffman told a joint congressional committee on foreign affairs. He asked just 'under $3 billion to keep EGA going on its winning way in its third year...
...Lieut. Colonel Paul Douglas was retired from active duty with a crippled arm that he will never fully use again and only the fondest recollections of the marines: "They don't hold it against you too much if you have made your living in intellectual pursuits. The Marine Corps loves eccentrics and I guess they thought I was something of a nut. So they gave me my chance...
Kurth's fondest dream was to convert Southern yellow pine, not good for finished building purposes, into newsprint. Not until the mid-'30s when a method of controlling the pitch content in pine pulp was discovered, was he convinced that it could be done. Then he had to spend five years convincing other Texans. After Kurth raised $2,689,684, including more than $400,000 from 25 newspapers, RFC lent him $3,425,000. He had hardly started to make newsprint when the war cut off his supply of chemically made pulp. With additional private loans and another...
...Dyer's fondest hopes is that he will be able to offer a job to any of his ballplayers who want to work after they are through in baseball. There is small chance, however, that Stan The Man, with at least five good years of baseball left in him, will ever wind up working for his current boss...