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...Great gestures imperially to his invincible Macedonians. The Roman Legions' S.P.Q.R. banner rises in triumph over Hasdrubal. Joan of Arc, whose face resembles that of Whitney Museum Director Juliana Force, lifts her sword over the English at Orleans (1429). Charles Martel, William the Conqueror, Napoleon, Wellington, Kellermann, Gustavus Adolphus, Peter the Great, Charles of Sweden, Gates at Saratoga, Meade at Gettysburg, Joffre at the Marne- all are there for the edification and inspiration of West Pointers...
...with her party at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, she climbed to the Valiant's box, clad in an immaculate grey top hat, yellow stock, coaching coat, blue jodhpurs, and red-&-white apron. Her companions included Trainer Walsh. Ernest K. Fownes, veteran of the 1910 run, and Chairman Gustavus Town Kirby of the U. S. Olympic Horse Show Committee who. as official timer, carried six watches. A minister blessed the equipage. At the brake, Eddie Dugan, resplendent in scarlet coat, tootled a few notes on his brass coaching horn without which no fashionable affair of this kind is complete...
...GUSTAVUS SWIFT PAINE...
Judges for this contest were Gustavus H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English, Emeritus; Robert W. Coues '95, Instructor in English; and Robert F. Young, instructor in Public Speaking...
...many hogs as in 1934-rising price produced sales of $767,000,000, nearly $150,000,000 higher than in 1934. Profit was up more than $6,000,000, but the thrifty Swifts appropriated a $6,000,000 reserve for possible inventory losses in the future. Since 1885, when Gustavus Franklin Swift founded the company over which Son Gustavus Franklin Swift now presides, Swift & Co. has reflected an extremely able family management...