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...pool addicts who watched them, banked closely under the shaded lamps of Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office boy, a reckless and brilliant player who won last year; and tall, slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, the handsomest indoor athlete in the U.S., who started to play billiards in Monmouth, Ill., when he was seven, became city champion at twelve, finished fourth in his first world's championship four years later...
...article recently published by the United States Daily brings further light upon that grotesquely magnified problem, "the monetary value of a college education." This time, however, the undergraduate will find the light to be of a chilling blue color, for Walter J. Greenleaf, "associate specialist in higher education" at the Federal Office of Education, finds that the questionnaires, surveys, and periodically issued ratings are at best, unreliable and misleading...
...Studies in English Grotesque Satire; Professors Arthur Burkhard, for the publication of a book on "The German Sense of Form"; S. H. Cross, for making a study of the History of Russian literature of the Kiev Period; Mr. T. F. Currier, for the completion of a Bibliography of John Greenleaf Whittier; Professors W. S. Ferguson, for the publication of "The Treasurers of Athena"; J. D. M: Ford, for the publication of a Bibliography of Cervantes, for continuing his work of the Harvard Council on Hispano-American Studies, for the preparation of a Grammar of Old French...
...balls hardly have time to stop rolling after one shot before he is set for the next. Last year he ran out a game in a world's championship in 32 minutes. Only one man in the world could hope to beat him and he was Ralph Greenleaf, impassive, shiny-haired defending champion. In Dwyer's Billiard Academy in Manhattan last week Greenleaf and Rudolph, with the crowd banked around them, bent over a green baize table in the finals of the national pocket billiards championship. They played the kind of pocket billiards that smalltown sports play...
Those receiving awards from the Price Greenleaf fund are Albert Bronstein '33, M. J. Klainer '33, A. J. Marder '31, Nicholas Sano '33, E. B. Schoenbach '33, Morris Shapiro '33, Morton Shillman '33, Samuel Silverman '33, I. R. Wechaler...