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Harvard's strength at the bottom of the ladder was the decisive factor in yesterday's match. Tom Wynne, Bob Sinclair, and Roger Wales won at five, six, and seven, and were joined for the victory by captain Brain McGuinn at three and Bob Keefe...
...Tibbets added a 5 and 4 victory, and Frank Mahady scored 7 and 6. Joe Roberts and George Vary both registered 8 and 7 wins at the bottom of the ladder...
steps of the roaring ladder, and then to clear the top on the last try, alive enough to spawn...
Died. William White, 70, chairman of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad since 1963, a survivor of the days when rails, not planes, carried the U.S. public, who started out at 16 with the Erie, climbed the traditional ladder to the presidency of the New York Central in 1952, only to be forced out two years later in a raucous proxy fight, then moved on to the Delaware and Hudson and the Erie Lackawanna, which he highballed from a $17 million loss in 1963 to a $6,700,000 profit last year; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...tried speculation (South American mining shares), and was soon saddled with a load of debts that plagued him nearly all his life. He took to writing, but his first novel, Vivian Grey, scandalized the haul monde, without winning a large public or making much money. Politics became his ladder of last resort. Even then he slipped four times on the first rung before finally winning a seat in Parliament on his fifth...