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Scholarships totalling $540 went to 15 needy University undergraduates last night as the Student Council voted the largest amount in its history to aid students in financial straights in meeting their term bills...
Massachusetts Hall and Weld Hall, al-smaller in total pledges than several of the larger Houses, held the distinction of having the largest percentage signed up. Included in the totals yesterday were 15 promised donations from the maintenance department and 12 from Radcliffe...
...didn't think so was Dallas' yippy, yeasty John William Carpenter, 65, the state's prime booster. He had built the state's first power & light company (which ran only at night "except for one day a week for ironing"), became president of its second largest one in 1927. Now he had a hand in more than 42 different enterprises, ranging from the Jack and Mule Breeders Association to river & harbor improvements. But his greatest concern for the past 25 years has been that "every bolt, every nut, every spool of wire had to come from...
...just one month to organize the company which had operated Lone Star for the Government. U.S. Steel made Carpenter move even faster. He promptly rounded up his old Lone Star Steel associates-ranchers, oilmen, bankers. There was Robert L. Thornton, the boisterous, robust president of Dallas' third largest (Mercantile National) bank. Once a sharecropper, Thornton describes himself as "a mule in carriage harness," has pushed through some notable projects (e.g., a 33-story skyscraper erected in Dallas during the war) with the exhortation: "Put on the collar and hamestring...
Enthusiastic thanks from the New York headquarters of the World Students Service Fund reached Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48 last night, recognizing the $23,085 grand total of University and faculty contributions for overseas food relief as "the largest amount from any college in the history of the fund...