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...natured fellow who goes around hitting people terribly hard. He bruises their bellies, blasts the breath from their lungs, breaks the skin of their heads and generally bangs them about until, brains addled with agony, they fall unconscious. In his case it is a much-admired, and therefore profitable, habit...
From the Yard the cry spread. In Singapore former undergraduates were in the habit of greeting each other by calling "Rinehart." The more familiar Grand Central Station often reverberated with cries of "Rinehart" during the 30's, and riot once started in the Taft Hotel the day of the Yale game when a Mr. Rinehart was paged by a bellboy...
Hard Times. Jack Northrop began designing an all-weather interceptor six years ago, when no enemy had any A-bombs to drop on the U.S. Northrop has i habit of looking ahead. A onetime garage mechanic, he helped found Lockheed Aircraft, designed the Lockheed Vega, used by Wiley Post on his two flights around the world and by Amelia Earhart on her second transatlantic flight in 1932. On his own, Northrop built the Alpha, forerunner of the modern low-wing, all-metal monoplane, and pioneered multicellular metal construction in commercial airplanes. He had long dreamed of an all-wing...
...company to meet the new conditions ever since he took over from his father in 1946. Peter Grace found it short of top executive talent. He brought in executives from other firms and, although a graduate of Yale himself ('36), he put a stop to Grace's habit of hiring what he calls "rich men's sons from swanky colleges." Says Grace: "What we want are hungry, brainy young men who are eager to knock themselves...
...uses, a group of them who disagree strongly met last week at the College of Medical Evangelists (run by Seventh-Day Adventists) in Loma Linda, Calif. They applauded Chicago's Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy (no Adventist but a Methodist) when he berated alcohol in any form as a "habit-forming . . . and dangerous drug," which, used to excess, "is degrading to human reason and dignity...