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Three outstanding professors in the humanities field have announced that they will retire from active teaching after the present school year. They are: William C. Greene '11, professor of Greek and Latin; Hyder E. Rollins, Gurney Professor of English Literature; and Taylor Starck, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture...
Valuable Loss. Last September, attracted by a tax loss of $11 million, Sonnabend bought control of Botany Mills, an oldtime worsted manufacturer hard hit by the textile depression. To make use of its tax loss, Botany bought money-making Gastonia Combed Yarn Corp., Jewel Cotton Mills and Gurney Mfg. for $14 million. By writing its losses off against the mills' profits, the purchase was made largely an intracompany, bookkeeping operation, cost Botany little in cash...
...President Don Nyrop flew to Washington. A onetime CAB chairman who knows his way around the Capitol, Nyrop got Minnesota's Republican Senator Edward Thye to call on the President with a new sheaf of facts and figures supplied by Nyrop and CAB's Acting Chairman Chan Gurney. Pan Am had indeed led in passengers for the last two years, but most of its bulge came in 1953, when plane-short Northwest had to shift its Boeing Stratocruisers from the Pacific to domestic and Orient runs and fly DC-4s to Hawaii. In 1954 Northwest made up most...
History 61b is the second half of the basic American history survey course, covering the period since 1865. Frederick Merk, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and Wilbur J. Bender, lecturer on History, will continue to give History 61a, the first half of the course...
...William F. Gurney, 12, of West Palm Beach. Fla., saw a girl and boy trying to pick up some books that the girl had dropped on a railroad track. Gurney rushed onto the track, pushed the boy and girl off, then jumped clear himself-just as a train roared past...