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...Putsch" on Mellon Hall has ended with the end-of-the-alphabet boys in complete control of entry D. Rumor has it that one or two of the rooms are slightly crowded. We wouldn't know, but when we asked Johnny Pugh what he was doing on the ground outside the window of D-12 Sunday evening, he informed us that all of his roommates had taken a deep breath at the same time. They're working on a timing plan which will enable them to stay in the room and breathe at the same time. Meanwhile Al Zadnichek...
...powerful, rather a mooncalf to look at, he was inclined to be blunt when he spoke at all. There was little feeling in his face: in the hottest moments of violent polo he was deadpan. He seldom took a drink, never smoked. He left a wife, the former Margaret Mellon (niece of the late Andrew), two daughters, Peggy and Louise and twin sons, Thomas and William...
This was no surprise to Mt. Vernon's new boss, Thomas Mellon Evans.* Tom Evans, just turned 33, slick-haired, aggressive, plunked himself into the president's chair a fortnight ago and calmly announced that he was out to carve himself a rich slice of the rail car business. He did not seem to care if it came right out of the venerable Big Four-Pullman, American Car, General American and Pressed Steel. His $3,000,000 order from the Southern Railway for 1,000 freight cars was proof he meant business...
...Evans graduated from Yale into the depression in 1931. He was glad to get a lowly clerk's job with the Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. But that was as far as the Mellon help went. With only some fatherly advice from Gulf's Board Chairman, W. L. Mellon, Tom Evans made his way alone. For six years he saved money, like an Alger hero; and played the stockmarket, unlike an Alger hero. Thus he collected $10,000. He wanted to find and buy a family-owned business that had gone to pot. In the down...
...first cousin twice removed of the late famed Andrew Mellon. Thomas Mellon Evans is named for his father who in turn was named for the founder of the Mellon dynasty, the late Judge Thomas Mellon, father of Andrew...