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Cornell took two from Dartmouth and dropped another to Columbia. A week ago the Ithacans were on the bottom of the heap and the Indians tied for second. Only Princeton has spurted out leaving the others to stew with the pack...
Fortunately or unfortunately, as the case may be, the history of the Peabody dates back to an idea conceived by a Yale man. In 1856 Professor Othniel C. Marsh, impressed by his discoveries in an insignificant, little shell-heap in Newark, New Jersey, wrote to his uncle, George Peabody of London, that he felt it might be a good idea if a museum of American archacology and rthnology were established in this country. Peabody, having already intended to give something to Harvard, gathered in the suggestion with open arms, the result being that on October 16, 1866, a deed...
...Mullen's results are rarely as heroic as her efforts. Already on their way to the 1,000-year-distant scrap heap are her portraits of Conductor Eugene Ormandy in chromium; Governor Herbert Lehman in britannia, Nelson Eddy in aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the observation car of Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr). She has done others in pewter, gold, brass, glass and wood. Recently at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Navy officials dedicated her stainless steel murals Hong Kong Harbor and London Pool-two great scenes of British shipping...
...Saturday Cornell visits Soldiers Field for a doubleheader while the Tigers play host to Penn. Those four games, won by the "right" teams, could turn the tide of the 1942 campaign. Meanwhile, however, Princeton will take a swat at Columbia tomorrow. Although Cornell is on the bottom of the heap, she is 33 percentage points nearer the Crimson than Princeton is on the opposite...
...grew greater, it needed more management manpower. The Air Corps Chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, looked around for a helper, last week tapped tall, drawling Cyrus Rowlett Smith, American Airlines president, for the job. "C.R.," an ace airline executive, pushed American to the top of the domestic airline heap...