Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Papers, which he never got around to finishing), but he still takes time to read novels ("anything but detective stories"), listen to Mozart records and play with his two children and two cats. At Smith, one of his jobs will be to raise the $2,000,000 left to go in the college's $7,000,000 drive. Beyond that, he claims to have no revolutionary plans for Smith ("This whole thing has happened rather suddenly"). But Smith, he adds, will not become a female Harvard...
...girls who want to go into the professional fields," he says, "the curriculum can be exactly the same as a curriculum for men. But most girls work for a while, then get married and have children. There is need for improvement in education for the days before marriage, and also for preparing for the life of the postgraduate mother-when the children have grown up and left...
...kitchen ("If it's more modern than mine, I'll take it"); a $425 record library; an ermine jacket, hat and muff; a one-year scholarship to the Berkshire Hills girls school; a $2,850 trip to Paris and Monte Carlo ("I'd rather go somewheres else-like California...
...Gazette pays its easygoing, underpaid staff a top of only $50 a week. In the tiny newsroom, up a cobwebby staircase in the Gazette's old building, there are not enough typewriters to go around so the staff takes turns writing stories. It leans heavily on loyal volunteer correspondents for breaking news. Bragged one staffer: "There is not a police department or a fire department within a hundred miles that would not telephone us the news at any time of the day or night." But when the occasion demands, the sleepy Gazette wakes up with a bang...
...million). But its wholly owned subsidiary, the Western Improvement Co. and its affiliates, which operate the oil, mining and timber enterprises spread beside the Santa Fe's tracks, did even better. Net profit of $11.2 million was its best ever. As in other years, the profit did not go to Santa Fe but into Western Improvement's surplus, bringing it to $58.8 million. Said Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley: "A handy cushion...