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Inflation has made inadequate the $400,000 annual income which Harvard derives from its scholarship endowment, the largest in the world, Monro explained. The price of attending Harvard is now 50 percent over the pre-war cost and hence $600,000 is now needed to finance yearly scholarship grants...
...remembered something else about the day: "You know, when they inaugurated me I had $17 in the bank. I had to tell them to get me out a paycheck right away." Muñoz has never cared about money, and his present salary ($10,600 a year) is the largest he has ever earned; before his election he was living on his $94 weekly wage as an editor of the daily newspaper Diario de Puerto Rico...
Rarely has a show reached its 100th-performance milestone in spite of a hostile press. All for Love is rarer still: it got there in spite of an apathetic public. Its only impetus has come from a stubbornly stagestruck millionaire named Anthony Brady Farrell, an angel with the largest wingspread ever seen on Broadway.* In the year since Farrell took a leave from his Albany chain factory, he has spent more than $2,000,000 plunging where others fear to tread...
...reason stood out plain: the church had plenty of potential ministers among its young men, but it was losing them for lack of training facilities. Last week's meeting was called by the Episcopalians' largest divinity school and one of the first in the country, 125-year-old Virginia Theological Seminary. Since the war, it has been swamped by applications for enrollment. Seven other Episcopal theological seminaries report a similar boom in applications...
...matter of (1) size of the glass, (2) amount of foam, and (3) percent of Scotch blood in the bartender. Right now a keg of beer yields between 190 and 220 ten cent glasses. Cronin's uses a nine-ounce glass, one of the largest around here, and settle for 190 per barrel. The Wursthaus, on the other hand, employs an eight-ounce glass, and works every barrel for well over 200 servings...