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...stables (Brewster's colt, Alderman, won Hollywood Park's $50,000 Sunset Handicap in 1951). But, Brewster insisted, he intended all the while to pay the union back-still does. The trouble is that he does not really know how much he owes, since-Brewster said-a janitor had mistaken the Western Conference's pre-1954 records for trash (Brewster and the Teamsters' International President Dave Beck being under income-tax investigation at the time) and thrown them away...
...more they observed him during his first months on the job as night janitor in 1951, the more the pupils and teachers of the Edwin Markham Elementary School in the Portland, Ore. school district began to realize that there was something special about shy, quiet Horace Bixby. Because of the Depression, "Bix" had never finished college. But he had an obvious talent for science and mechanics-and an even more important knack for getting along with children. He brought them birds and fish to study and care for. He built them an incubator, a model cloud chamber...
...Milton E. Pharr was found by Nessfeness in a segregated high school in Gastonia, N.C., where his father is a janitor, his mother a cleaning woman. After a poor start at DePauw University (one B, two Ds, an F), Milton raised his marks to four As, a B, a C, made the varsity baseball team and became president of the literary magazine...
...start at about $125 for two or three bedrooms, but such apartments in choice locations might run upwards of $200 a month. The average two-bed-room triple, according to official Harvard figures, costs about $525 a term or $115 a month, without cooking facilities, but with porter and janitor service and utilities...
Before writing the letter, the two freshmen had consulted their janitor, from whom they received no aid. They then decided to write President Pusey, asserting, "since we freshmen were advised that if at first we have no success with Harvard hierarchy, we should try and try again...