Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Previous record holder: Monologuist Cornelia Otis Skinner with 69 performances...
Otto J. Bachman, who last night celebrated his 25th birthday, is the first German holder of the James Bryant Conant--Class of 1928 Scholarship. A student at the Free University of Berlin, Bachman is now living in a five-man suite in Eliot House...
...bonus, every stockholder got a warrant giving him a "right" for each share of stock held. Eight rights allow the holder to buy a $100 debenture. He can hold it and get 3⅞% interest, or turn it in, after Dec. 13, with $48 in cash, for one share of common stock. This makes it possible for the debenture holder to buy a share of stock at $148, or $31 less than the current selling price. Thus a right was worth about $3.20 at last week's price of A.T. & T. stock...
Pleadings. What could be said for Sergeant Gallagher, brought up in a decent home in Brooklyn, an Army recruit at 17, and a holder of the Purple Heart? Some of the witnesses thought Gallagher believed in the Communist doctrines; others thought that Gallagher was one who enjoyed lording it over his fellows, seeming important and influential, and that he was soft and pliable, receptive to the meager comforts the Communists could accord him. "I know I'm a sorry son of a bitch," Gallagher told one of the reactionaries one day, "but after all, I know...
Died. Rear Admiral Apollo Soucek, 58, onetime (1953-55) chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, crack Navy test pilot and onetime holder of altitude records for sea-(38,560 ft. in 1929) and landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930); of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters...