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...rate, the College made more correct investment decisions than incorrect ones, and the phenomenal rise in assets can be attributed largely to the sound policies of University treasurers--all of whom have had professional experience in financial matters since the appointment of Boston merchant Thomas Brattle...
Word from Portugal. Gruff, heavy-spending Achille Lauro, multimillionaire owner of a huge merchant shipping fleet, staunch friend of the late Benito Mussolini and now the popular mayor of Naples, was the party's nominal head and principal bankroller (about $3,000,000 in contributions). Ex-Professor (of law) Alfredo Covelli, an expert parliamentarian and a good organizer, was secretary-general and real leader of the Monarchists...
Neither Tynan's dress nor his outrageous posturing is any accident. Born in Birmingham, the son of a merchant, he went up to Oxford at 18, well aware that "anyone who wants to play an eccentric to that crowd bloody well had better go about it like a professional." That is just what Kenneth Tynan bloody well...
Then through the diving digger's mind runs a torrent of history. Sometimes he knows the names of the merchant princes who shipped the jug of wine. He knows the temple, now disappeared, for which a cargo of marble columns was intended. He wonders, while the brilliant fish flutter around his head, why one Fadius Musa, a rich merchant of ancient Narbonne, loaded his ship so heavily with marble that the sea dragged it down...
...graduate prizes are divided into the three fields of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. Kenneth S. Lynn II 6G submitted the top essay in the Humanities field entitled "Jack London: The Brain Merchant." In the Social Sciences, first prize went to Harvey Glickman for a study of the British Internal Security Program; Honorable Mention in this division was awarded to William R. Taylor 6G. First Prize in the Natural Sciences went to James B. Hendrickson 4G, with Honorable Mention to Richard M. Ritland 3G. The three first-prize winners in the Graduate Division will each receive...