Word: marchant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Edward H. Litchfield, 53, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh from 1955 to 1965, while also holding down the board chairmanship of S.C.M. (Smith-Corona Marchant) Corp. and a handful of other executive positions; when the light plane carrying him, his mother, his wife and two children, and a pilot crashed into Lake Michigan. Steeped in administration as a top aide to Lucius Clay during the occupation of Germany, Litchfield was dean of Cornell's business school in 1955 when Pitt chose him as chancellor; in no time, he had kicked off a $126 million program to expand...
...last-minute snarl-up almost kept the winks grounded. The Cornell team had agreed to bring two three-by-six playing mats to the match. But according to Gottesman, "there was a misunderstanding," and the $5 mats, which can be purchased only from Marchant Games Ltd., Loughton, England, didn't arrive in time. The quick-thinking Crimson squad worked out a rotation schedule that allowed the teams to get by using only Harvard's mats...
...reason was given for the resignation, although Litchfield, 51, is still recuperating from a heart attack and is under doctors' orders to reduce his work load (among his other jobs: chairmanship of the S.C.M. Corp., formerly Smith Corona Marchant). Litchfield leaves with the legislature still debating whether to put privately endowed Pitt under state control and with trustees divided as to what he has actually accomplished. Banker Frank Denton brusquely dismissed his plans as "pipe dreams." But Trustee Chairman Gwilym Price, accepting the resignation, wrote Litchfield: "You have done more for the University of Pittsburgh in a decade than...
...much for the Northwest Passage. Southward the way was barred by Spain, but the greedy "marchant adventurers" heard wondrous travelers' tales. One story, no doubt brought back by an ancestor of Ian Fleming, gave it out that "certaine servants of the emperor having prepared gold into fine powder blow it thorow hollow canes upon their naked bodies, untill they be al shining from the foote to the head...
...claims can produce copies at half the cost and twice the speed of Xerox machines but that require special paper. American Photocopy demonstrated its new "Dial-A-Copy," which has a telephone-like dial on which the user can order from one to ten copies, and SCM (Smith Corona-Marchant) showed its similar, dial-operated Model 44. 3M displayed six specialized machines that produce by means of heat and light sensitivity; one turns out single copies on heat-sensitive paper for about 310, and another produces 40 copies a minute on ordinary paper for about 10 each...