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Since that time, Overseers are still suspicious and some are still vigilant. But the Overseers, unlike the Corporation, have not merely lent their authority; the Board's powers have slipped away over the years until it is now a channel through which the Corporation and Administration can estimate the alumni attitudes...
...activities of the New York stock market in the past week," commented the CRIMSON urbanely "have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of continental finesse of the pursuit of this world's goods...
...local farmers lent a hand as well. The "College Corn" campaign to which each family was asked to contribute a peck of wheat per year supported a dozen scholarship's and paid the salaries of the entire faculty during this period...
...Troy, N.Y., members of Russell Sage College's Class of '49 made amends to the world's spryest primitive painter, Grandma Moses, 93. Grandma had got an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the girls' school in 1949. Her cap and gown were lent to her for the occasion, and recently Grandma complained in TIME (Dec. 28): "They didn't let me keep the cap." After reading TIME'S story, the Sage girls got busy and arranged for Grandma to come to their fifth reunion, where she was pictured admiring her appearance topped...
Much of Britain's film-producing industry would have blacked out long ago but for the help of the government's National Film Finance Corp. It backed 60% of the films made in the last five years, and lent the industry $28 million out of a special revolving loan fund. Fully half of this total went to British Lion Films (makers of such recent critical successes as Breaking Through the Sound Barrier and Captain's Paradise), founded by Sir Alexander Korda. The loan first fell due in 1951, but was extended so that British Lion would...