Word: illing
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Other officers chosen were Stefan D. Abrams '60 of Eliot House and Waban, treasurer, and David M. Perlmutter '59 of Lowell House and Glencoe, Ill., Secretary. Although all candidates were discussed by members of the old and new Councils, voting was done solely by members of the 1958 Council, all but two of whom are on the Council for the first time...
...hysteria, the air waves now support 537 FM stations (against 521 TV stations) for the estimated 13 million sets in use. In the past two months FCC has made 22 grants for new FM stations, and 47 more are under construction. Several, like WFLN in Philadelphia, WEAW in Evanston, Ill., have expanded to AM to make their outlets better-paying propositions. Biggest single FM boom is taking place in Los Angeles, which boasts, as of this week, 20 FM stations. Both Lincoln and Continental are advertising FM dashboard sets, and a fortnight ago Mutual Broadcasting System announced plans to acquire...
...teacher or parent in the city of Evanston. Ill. (pop. 75,300) cared more deeply about the Orrington elementary school than Swedish-born Hjalmar Andersson. For 23 years as janitor, he kept the building clean and in good repair: no matter how much there was to do, he always had time to joke or chat with the pupils and listen to their troubles. But for all his good humor, Janitor Andersson is a stubborn man. Last week he was barred from the school he loves because of a rather odd and lonely crusade...
Died. Walter Carey Lindley, 77, crusty, scholarly federal judge (for 36 years), since 1949 a member of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; in Danville, Ill. Appointed a district judge in 1922, Republican Lindley in 1939 imposed $20,000 in fines and court costs of more than half a million on General Motors and three subsidiaries for antitrust violations, seven years later found the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and subsidiaries guilty of conspiring to monopolize part of the nation's food business...
...veteran and the author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from a paternity charge lodged against him by a hay-prone hoyden. Parkman is Peyton Place transplanted, with more skeletons than it has closets...