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Harvard's A.V.C. chapter, largest in the state, will elect its influential delegation to the forthcoming state convention at Springfield in a special meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Harvard 6, Chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 said yesterday...
Also under the sponsorship of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, which draws its talent from the six largest metropolitan colleges, are talks on child psychology at 7 o'clock to night and tomorrow night over WMEX...
...greatness. Cyrus McCormick plugged his reapers with written testimonials, sold them on the installment plan ($30 down, $90 on terms). In 1847 he built a three-story brick factory in Chicago. By the time he died in 1884, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. was one of the largest in the field. Even after it became the International Harvester Co. 18 years later, through a merger with its principal competitors, it remained "a family affair...
...ition. Manhattan's Wall Street Journal bought what was said to be the largest magazine ad ever. In a 48-page spread in next week's Advertising Age, the Journal reproduced ads from all business advertisers in its 26 September issues. The cost: $16,800, plus printing and layout cost...
...year-old Billy James left Ireland with "a very small sum of money" and a Latin grammar. When he died in 1832, the $3,000,000 he left his heirs (from public utilities and real estate) was the second largest fortune *in the State of New York. One of his 13 children, whose name was Henry, decided to use his inheritance to cultivate his passion for "being" instead of "doing." Wrote he: "I can give ecstatic hours to worship or meditation but moments spent in original deed, such as putting a button upon my coat or cleansing my garden-walk...