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Football coach Lloyd Jordan last night denied reports that he had conferred with Pittsburgh Athletic Director Tom Hamilton about leaving Harvard to coach at his alma mater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Denies He Sought Job at Pitt | 1/10/1952 | See Source »

...double-bubble chewing gum, one bottle of Night in Bagdad perfume, three pictures of Actor Lash Larue, two rolls of mints, a loaded cigar, a Dewey-for-President badge. ¶ Gift of the week: the 30-room Southampton, N.Y. mansion of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles E. Merrill to his alma mater Amherst College. Amherst's plan for the mansion: to set up a Merrill School of Economics for advanced summer training of students who show "marked talent as promising economists." ¶ In Switzerland, Geneva police banned the sale of a Brooklyn-brand of bubble gum called Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Just what suggestions are you after, Mr. Jordan? Abolition of eligibility rules, so that an athlete's usefulness to his alma mater will not terminate with his graduation or expulsion? Or perhaps an October 15 trading deadline? Or waiver provisions to prevent bigger conferences from raiding the top players from lesser leagues until other teams in that league have had a chance to bid for their services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan | 11/29/1951 | See Source »

...stay was apparently enough to convince at least some of the fish that the pool was their home stream. They swam back from the sea and up Puget Sound, guided by their mysterious homing instinct, then struggled through Government fish ladders into Lake Union. When they reached their alma mater, they made a sharp left turn and climbed a ladder into the pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Grads' Return | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Wilson '79 followed Madison's footsteps to the White House, and George M. Dallas 1810, like Burr, became a vice-president. The list of cabinet members who call Princeton their alma-mater has grown to 24, and that of ambassadors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Presidents, Six Authors Walked in Shadow of Nassau | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

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