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Varsity skiing ends this weekend as seven Crimson skiers compete against Yale and Princeton at Pink-ham Notch. Racing in the slalom are Captain John Houser, Harry Gardner, Kris Lehmkuhl, Daryl Hawkins, Jim Lawson, George Wilson, and Noel Scullin. Yardling skiers will race against the Yale freshmen...
...Alfred Lawson fixed the committee with a steady gaze and nimbly dodged a barrage of questions from Michigan's Senator Blair Moody. How much had the machines been sold for? "I don't know. I never go in for figures at all." Had Lawson made any profit on the deal? "Profit? Why no. What profit could I get out of it?" What courses were taught at the school? "Well, they teach Lawsonomy." And that deals with mechanics? "[It teaches] the knowledge of life and everything pertaining thereto, and that takes in mechanics." Finally Lawson got exasperated...
...Figures. Last week Lawsonomy-Founder Lawson was called out of seclusion and summoned to Washington to appear before the Senate Small Business Committee. The Senators wanted to know why his university, claiming to be a tax-exempt institution, had paid $4,480 for 62 war-surplus machine tools "for educational purposes" in 1947, and resold 45 of them for $120,000. The committee also wanted to know if the University of Lawsonomy is a bona fide college. If not, it had no legal right to the machines...
...Senators kept at it for almost two hours but never managed to pin Lawson down. Finally they let him go with an order to come back later with his account books. Educator Lawson hopped out of his chair and headed for the door. "The damnedest thing I've ever heard of in all my life," he snorted. Said Senator Moody: "I don't know whether we're talking about the same thing, but I'm inclined to agree with...
Falling Market. In Coral Gables, Fla., when Store Supervisor J. R. Lawson shouted "drop it," ten steaks, two hams, four chickens and two packages of sliced ham fell from the skirts of two women shoplifters...