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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams House fielded the largest number of candidates in practice yesterday when over twenty Gold Coasters were on hand to fill out the total ranks of over 100 House gridmen. The squad from "A" House is slated to have James Waterhouse, a University graduate student, as its coach...
Previously scheduled to make only one trip this year--that by train to Princeton--one of the largest bands in Harvard's history decided that sleeping in a bus is a small enough sacrifice to take the field before the Army Band and to play above Cayuga's Waters...
...anonymous Frenchman had offered Oxford ?1,500,000 ($6,000,000)-biggest gift ever received from a foreigner, and second largest in modern times.* There were a few strings attached. Most of the money was to be used to start a new college. Its name: St. Anthony's. Its general purpose: training young men "of strong will and character as leaders of the future." One-third of the college's undergraduates must be French. A final condition explained the council's unacademic haste: the offer was a take-it-or-leave-it; the donor was about...
...workers in setting up health and retirement insurance plans. No coddler of employees, Crown Zellerbach thinks workers should shoulder more responsibility. For example, the average Crown Zellerbach employee works with equipment worth $25,000 (in 1940), and is asked to suggest ways to make it more efficient. At its largest mill the company gets up to 100 suggestions a month, finds about 40% useful...
...Largo is the largest island in the hundred mile chain which ends at Key West, and to it comes a disillusioned veteran (Bogart) to visit his dead buddy's wife and father (Bacall and Barrymore). But the latter's hotel is already populated with a complete selection of mobsters including a boozy gunmoll and the triggerman with a comic book. Embittered Bogart is at first unwilling to do anything about Johnny Rocco and his cohorts, but Bacall renews his faith, and the gunmoll slips him a heater, so the whole affair is resolved in an cerie gun battle...