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...race for P. & G.'s presidency, McElroy got a strong hand up from Camilla Fry McElroy, handsome daughter of a Cincinnati industrial-soap manufacturer, whom he had married in 1929. "Camille" McElroy shared his ambition, helped him overcome a personal handicap of stuttering, entered into a family partnership to get him on his way. They limited their entertaining primarily to important P. & G. people, resolved never, never to go into debt-in fact refused to buy a house until they could do it without a mortgage. In due time he bought his present grey-green stucco house (known...
This sort of study is probably the most stimulating the College can offer, and it could be made available to many more students than now take it. Conservative departments and timid students are the greatest handicap to expansion of tutorial for credit, but if the faculty can put aside the absurd notion that most students work only for grades, this timorous attitude can be overcome. There is a grade in tutorial for credit, unlike course reduction, but this is not the stimulus; the spur to work in "99" courses comes from the requirement of laying one's work before...
...looking at cardiograms of horses," said Plesch, so he sent Dr. White an electronic tracing of Stephanotis' heartbeat. The good doctor, who also takes an interest in the tickers of whales, took one look and pronounced the colt fit. Reassured, Stephanotis won last week's classic Cambridgeshire Handicap at Newmarket and earned an invitation to Laurel (Md.) for the Washington, D.C. International later this month...
Among other horses, the Phipps stable had Neji. But the top jumper of 1955 had pulled up lame after the Midsummer Hurdle Handicap of 1956 and seemed to be through with racing. It took all Mike's talents to make the horse whole. This year his perseverance, combined with Paddy's skill in the jockey's irons, has paid off handsomely. Neji, who made his first start last month, is already steeplechase horse of the year. Barring injury, the big chestnut has a long career ahead in which to build on his earnings...
...class-conscious communist who conquers every handicap and convinces the people of the truth of the ideology. This figure is quite like the hero of the cowboy movies. He can fight against all odds and win even so. The only difference is that the communist does not wear a ten-gallon hat but a set of rumpled coveralls...