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...great lamentation arose from the common stockholders. Before a dignified Federal referee the chairman of the protective committee, Peter M. Leavitt, drew an ugly comparison between the way the Titanic's captain conducted himself in an emergency and the way Mr. McLellan behaved in the foundering of his company. In Mr. Leavitt's welter of metaphors drawn from King Solomon, medicine and the sea it was never quite clear just how Mr. McLellan did behave, but one thing was certain: Founder McLellan was supporting the principal bidder for the property. Indirectly the bidder was George Keenan Morrow...
...Morrows as well as their ally Mr. McLellan suffered from Mr. Leavitt's verbal barrage, but heavier with the Federal referee weighed the fact that the chain-store's sales and profits were on the rise. Upshot was a postponement of the sale until next January when full-year reports would be in. Meantime McLellan stock began to rise from the low of $1 per share. By last fortnight it was selling at $12.50 and for several days was the most active issue on the New York Stock Exchange. These fireworks caught the eagle eye of the Securities...
There will be continuous music from 10 o'clock until 3 o'clock. Tickets will be $4.95 a couple, $3.20 stag, and are procurable at the Copley-Plaza, Leavitt & Peirce's, and at the CRIMSON office...
...lettermen forming the nucleus of the squad will be Captain Richard C. Boys '35, Lawrence K. Grady '36, Robert K. Morse '35, Richard C. Ernst '36, George VanD. Comfort '36, and Herant J. Adzigian '36, Leavitt S. White '37, captain of last year's Freshman team, is also a valuable addition to Harvard hopes...
Ninth Floor. Votes-for-women is no longer an issue, but the flame of feminism burns as high as ever in Helen Reid's compact breast. Proud is she that no other metropolitan newspaper employs as many female executives. There are Mrs. Helen W. Leavitt, assistant advertising manager; Elsa Lang, promotion director; Esther Kimmel in charge of the Home Economics Department; Books Editor Irita Van Doren; Mary Day Winn, assistant fiction editor; Book Critic Isabel Paterson. And most important, presiding on the ninth floor, Marie Mattingly Meloney...