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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Karim Aga Khan IV, 22, and Harvard University had a mutually satisfying parting. He got a bachelor of arts degree (with honors in history); Harvard got from the serious-minded Aga Khan, spiritual head of some 20 million Ismaeli Moslems, $50,000 for scholarships to Middle Eastern students, preferably Moslems, over the next ten years. Said he: "I know now that I shall never regret the decision I took after succeeding to my grandfather's title to return and complete my studies at Harvard . . . This university is among the greatest inspirers of liberal scholarship in the modern world...
...Columbus went up in emotional flames over his dismissal. Pastor McNeill began to feel the strain. "Some folks have got me on a spit," he said. "They're working me over on the air, every hour on the hour." Last week, while bowling with two of his three children, Pastor McNeill collapsed with a heart attack...
...Lawyer Hester finally got the judge's drift and moved for a mistrial on the grounds that the stories gave the jury information it should not have had. Judge Pye immediately ordered a mistrial...
...country for old men. Ben Hogan, 46, shared the lead in the first round, but could not stand the pace. Sam Snead, 45, got hot for one three-under-par round, then subsided. By the final 18 holes of the U.S. Open golf tournament at the Winged Foot Country Club course in suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y., young (27) Bill Casper Jr. held a three-stroke lead. On the last day Bill Casper, golf's best putter, bogeyed three of the last eight holes, but finished with a 72-hole total of 282, two over par. Then he sat back...
...level. After a more timid price boost-from a nickel to 7?-in 1952, two of Detroit's three papers spent years recovering lost ground, and the third-ranking Times has still not recovered. Yet a fortnight ago, all three Detroit papers raised prices again, and not only got away with it but last week sold more papers (an estimated 2%) than before the boost...