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...walloped Michigan 20-7, to make the Big Ten championship race wide open. With its all-star backfield, Georgia Tech smothered a once-beaten Tulane team 40-0. Outplayed on the line, Colgate riddled a weak Yale pass defense to win 14-6. Vinceton thumped Cornell 32-21, mak-ng Princeton the only major Eastern earn still undefeated, and prime favorite o take the Ivy League championship. On he Pacific Coast, Stanford upset J.S.C. 27-19, to become the leading candidate for the Rose Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Test for the Leaders | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...list in 1953 was Industrial Brownhoist Corp., a Michigan industrial-machinery maker which had more than $1,000,000 in cash reserves. The following year, Silberstein used Penn-Texas capital to buy up 51% of the stock in Connecticut's Niles-Bement-Pond, a machine-tool mak er with plenty of cash in the till. After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed.* With Colt's assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Merger for Colt | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...faculty which makes these judgments is essentially a teaching faculty--the kind that would be interested in mak- ing such detailed analysis of its students. Only fourteen members have doctorates. In addition, Case calls it far from the ideal size, in spite of the high faculty-student ratio. More members, according to him, are needed in order to furnish an intellectual climate for the faculty as a whole. The students keep the faculty on their toes with stimulus from "good, bright, eager undergraduate minds...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii and Peter V. Shackter, S | Title: Bard: Greenwich Village on the Hudson | 5/12/1954 | See Source »

...those who like to pinch pennies in their own workshops, the build-it-yourself business had the widest assortment of models yet. On view were 38 different models put out by seven kit-boatmakers, ranging all the way from 8-ft. prams to cabin cruisers. U-Mak-It Products, which had 15 models on show, also puts out a kit for a 23-ft. cabin cruiser (see cut} for $844 without motor, a saving of about $1,000 on the readymade model. Depending on the size, a home builder could slice as much as 60% from the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Dry-Land Cruise | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Mak-It's Everglasting and Kristal Kraft kits for owners who want to apply glass-fiber coatings to their own boat bottoms. Though the cost of coating a 16-ft. hull (roughly 40? per square foot) may run as high as $50, the companies say one coating is sufficient, leaves boats with a leakproof bottom that defies such things as fungus, barnacles and dry rot in fresh and salt waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Dry-Land Cruise | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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