Word: haven
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This years' increases in tuition at Princeton and Yale are the second in three years for both colleges. The 1952 increase at New Haven and Princeton was followed a year later by a $200 rise here...
...long conference, Morse urged Neuberger to drop the law and take up journalism. When the young man hesitated, Morse telephoned his father. "This boy's a fine journalist," he said, "but he's no lawyer and I doubt whether he ever can be. At any rate I haven't got time to try to make him one." Dick Neuberger switched to journalism...
After nine months as boss of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Patrick B. McGinnis last week made his first year-end report on the state of the road's health. Despite a $1,152,606 net loss before he took over in April, said McGinnis, the New Haven wound up 1954 with a net income of $9,000,000. As a result, he would be able not only to pay off $2,400,000 on the New Haven's income mortgage bonds, but also to hand stockholders a welcome dividend: $1.25 for preferred shareholders...
Wall Streeter McGinnis also announced that he wants to merge the New Haven with the $269 million Boston & Maine Railroad within two years, says this will give New England the benefits of greater economy and better service. Most New Englanders are against the move, including Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. But after a meeting with the Governor, McGinnis said flatly that he still intends to steam full-speed ahead. He and his friends have already bought 350,000 shares of B. & M. stock, now own 42.5%. If that is not enough, said McGinnis, "we are willing to put in more...
...Christians who sought to create a symbol out of the cup used at the Last Supper. Like so many other movies about the birth of Christianity, this film has a hard struggle trying to dramatize religion. Faith is depicted as a kind of chance commodity: some have it, some haven't-and the have-nots can get it merely by leafing through the scenario to the proper page...