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...Manhattan on the first lap of a 5,000-mile run which will take it as far south as Birmingham, Ala., as far north as Pittsfield, Mass. By Friday, when it hit the Lafayette College gymnasium at Easton, Pa., Metropolitan Singers Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan and John Gurney were complaining of the Cuban cigars smoked by fat Conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek in the back seat. But the 550-odd college students who jammed Easton's gymnasium thought the bus-toted Barber was swell, spent ten minutes bellowing and pounding for curtain calls. When it was over, huge Driver Tim Ward...
...fuzzy-eyed freshmen of a Wall Street bond school, the bankers knew exactly what they were doing. Each had paid $20 for his five-day course in practical banking. Tried out experimentally in 1937 by North Carolina's hefty, progressive bank commissioner, Gurney Pope Hood, the course was so successful that some 20 other States adopted it. During its four-year run the school has taught bankers from some four-fifths of North Carolina's 228 banks (resources...
...left for training camp last night," said South Dakota's Gurney...
...Packard is no newcomer to the high-powered engine business. In 1917, tall, brusque, brilliant Colonel Jesse Gurney Vincent, Packard's chief of engineering and designer of its famed Twin Six, went to Washington with the original blueprints of the famed Liberty engine in his grip. There Colonel Vincent went into a huddle with a California aircraftsman named Colonel E. J. Hall. Five days later they came out with an improved design. Before the war's end Packard delivered 6,500 Liberties to the belligerents...
...interview with the Sunday Advertiser Saturday, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, warned that of all the countries in the western hemisphere, Mexico is endangered the most by Nazi fifth column activity...