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...collegiate pride and a rigid budget have blocked the plan's adoption. The desire for a successful intercollegiate record emerges when the proposal for service games is mentioned. At other colleges, including Princeton, Swarthmore, and Fordham, a different attitude prevails, for their teams have already played Army athletes. Less flexible is the problem of expenses. The cost of trips to Army camps and of umpires and equipment for home games would unbalance an already strained budget. To fill the gap the Athletic Department has asked the Corporation for a supplementary grant...
...starting point for a new industry in a time when the shortage of alcohol is acute" was announced last week by Fordham's Frederick F. Nord before the American Chemical Society. Nord's starting point: his discovery that pentose, a sugar which is plentiful in corn and wood but has hitherto resisted fermentation by yeast enzymes, can be attacked and broken down by other enzymes secreted by certain fungi grown on mineral foodstuffs. The fungi reduce pentose to a heavy syrup (pyruvic acid) easily converted to ethyl alcohol...
Automatically canceled are Coach Mal Stevens' contract ($10,000 a year) and the team's 1942 schedule, including its traditional game with Fordham, Manhattan's subway classic...
...industry branches: young (42), dark, movie-handsome Philip Reed, chairman of General Electric. Engineer-Lawyer Reed took only 14 years to go from G.E.'s lamp division to the shoes of Owen Young. Milwaukee-born, he got his engineering degree from Wisconsin (1921), his law degree (1924) at Fordham night school, while he clerked at Manhattan's patent law firm Pennie, Davis, Marvin & Edmonds. He got to G.E. via Van Heusen Products (collars) where he had handled some nasty patent problems, and to get there he foresightedly accepted an initial $7,500 a year salary...
...fell before the weaker opposition of Cornell by a score of 31 to 27 the night before. Overnight the Crimson changed from an erratic, ragged five to a swift-passing, sure-fire combination that handed Dartmouth its second defeat after the Big Green had romped over such teams as Fordham, Wisconsin, Vermont, and Seton Hall...