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Unearthed: an Undershirt. While the bulldozers outside delved into the future, Harvard librarians inside had been digging up their past. In a series of Harvard Library Bulletins (the third issue is now in the works), its staff has begun to tell the story of the second largest* library in the U.S. They unearthed such unsuspected Harvardiana as Henry Adams' course notes and one of ex-President Henry Dunster's undershirts...
...largest percentage of U.S. geniuses was born in Massachusetts, in January (poorest genius-producing month: June), and inherited their talents equally from their fathers & mothers. The average genius sprang from a large brood (7.51 children) and from mature parents: father was 34.8 when the genius was born, mother...
Exactly nine days after President Truman asked them to "wait and see" before raising their prices, steelmakers got tired of waiting. The American Rolling Mill Co. was the first to act; it boosted its prices as much as $7 a ton. Next day Republic Steel Corp., third largest U.S. producer, boosted its prices $5 to $8. The same day, National Steel Corp. raised prices an average of $5.25 a ton. The following day, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. joined the move with raises of $6 to $7 a ton. The raises, on the whole, were much larger than anyone had expected...