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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Lowell '12, has been elected a member of the MIT Corporation, President James R. Killian, Jr., of MIT announced last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Gets MIT Post | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...afternoon the visitors will be guests of honor at a reception and tea at the home of Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., president of M.I.T, where they will meet Hindu students of Greater Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nehru to Dine With Conants At Noon Here | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...Into Killian's department store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week bustled thousands of women to get something for nothing. The "something" was a small orchid. In three days, Killian's gave away 10,000, and pushed sales 53% above normal volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Blossom Boom | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Killian's was not the only store to discover that free flowers attract bargain-hunting females. In Manhattan, James McCreery & Co.'s department store holds an orchid day once a month, hands out 100,000 free blossoms a year. When Chicago's Spiegel, Inc. opens a new retail store in its widespread chain, it pins orchids on its women customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Blossom Boom | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...professional man, said Killian, "we must add [a new] ingredient-the new social mind called for by Henry Adams. The specialist must shun the view that lopsidedness is laudable; he must be politically and morally responsible; he must test his actions by their human impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A New Ingredient | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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