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Swamp Girl (Frankie Laine; Mercury). An unintentionally hilarious song about a Lorelei who lives in a marsh and a fellow who can't help getting his feet...
Leonard Marks, Jr., Martin V. Marsh Powell Niland, and Donald R. Sch have been promoted to Assistant Professors of Business Administration W. Francis L. Foster and S. Leonard K are new Assistant Professors of Reseals in Business Administration...
Around the U.S., other stores were plugging foreign goods as hard as Macy's. Into Boston Harbor last week steamed the British cruiser Superb and the frigate Snipe. Over the side came a stream of sailors, who, as bands played, marched straight for Boston's Jordan Marsh Co. department store to open up its "Salute to Britain." On display were $750,000 worth of British imports. Dallas' A. Harris & Co. ended its exhibition of more than 5,000 imports from 26 countries, while Los Angeles' J. W. Robinson Co. got ready to put on a similar...
Alice in Wonderland (Lou Bunin; Souvaine), produced mainly in France with British actors and U.S. technicians, is the version whose release Walt Disney sued to block on the ground that it would cash in on his publicity (TIME, July 16). It turns its Alice (Carol Marsh) loose in a colorful wonderland of puppets and stylized sets after a live-action prologue purports to show how Mathematician Charles Dodgson cooked up his fantasy...
When the Civil War brought inflation, Harvard quickly hedged; it sold its fixed-income securities, invested in real estate. By 1881, some 40% of the university fund was tied up in land, including such choice morsels as the Boston corner lot which is now the site of Jordan Marsh Co., New England's biggest department store. Not until Boston Banker Charles Francis Adams became treasurer in 1898 did Harvard start shifting from real estate to common stocks. When the 1929 Wall Street crash put many good securities on the bargain counter, Harvard bought stocks faster than ever (see chart...