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Such signs, splashed on freight cars, railroad stations and blank walls, warn visitors to North Carolina of their approach to super-collegiate Duke University. Duke has one of the most spectacular football teams, one of the most Gothic campuses in the U. S. Its students are fanatically fond of football. They are also fanatically reverent toward the man who gave their university its name, its Gothic campus and its football team-the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...
Last week Jimmy Speyer, 77, wealthy, still fond of ceremonious European dining, announced what Wall Street had long been expecting: his retirement and the dissolution of Speyer...
...TIME, May 15), found orders again drying up. So Kennecott Copper Corp., big Guggenheim unit, cut the price to 10? and other companies followed. Result: April's high rate of sales continued. Phelps Dodge's President, Louis Shattuck Gates, tall, pleasant, frank, fond of playing poker (because "you can only get mad at yourself if your guess is wrong") remained one rebel against price cutting. Anti-Ford in philosophy, he kept his price at 10½ and consoled himself with the thought that his competitors were bad poker players-while they got the business...
...fond brook at the valley-head...
Says Anor about her father: he has "a marverlas degestion," laughs at his own jokes, "is very fond of taking a bath as his exercise," can't write without smoking. His hobbies are playing with candle wax, coloring picture books, "smoking even...