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Rumo(u)r has it that comment of a similar nature has been prevalent in the sister institution, Alma Mater of Sir Isaac Newton, Pitt and Paul Melon. The latter was reported in your good columns as having stroked the crew of Emmanuel College to victory in the annual winter regatta. Can you tell us what was meant by "the annual winter regatta" and how long this institution has existed at Cambridge-so that we may have the pleasure of witnessing it on the occasion of its recurrence? Can you also tell us when Mr. Paul Melon took up residence...
...lute had its heyday from the 14th to the 17th Century. It has a pear-shaped body built of pine or cedar staves pieced together like the crescent divisions of a melon. Its neck (lengths varied) has a fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which...
...Goodyear Melon. After a near-decade of financial trouble, reorganization and management strife Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. last week announced a stock melon. To stockholders it will sell a new common issue for $50 a share. Present common is around $90 a share. With the $41,480,000 derived from this sale Goodyear will pay off $7,500,000 notes due in December, will build a manufacturing unit in the South, will improve its financial position...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, before sailing for Europe on the Olympic last week, issued a long statement, of which the meat was that General Motors would cut a very fat melon in November. The stock did not soar, because some such statement had long been expected in Wall Street and the stock had already completed a steady rise...
...Melon Longchamps Consomm de Cheval...