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...lead, "sheepishly swears this story is true−but even if it isn't, a newspaper would have to be pretty selfish not to pass it along as he tells it." The story was that a motorist, who refused to identify himself, was driving along Connecticut's Merritt Parkway when his car stalled. He flagged a passing car, asked the woman driving it to give him a push. Since his own car had an automatic transmission, he explained: "You'll have to get up to 30 to 35 miles an hour in order to get me started...
...MERRITT-Chapman & Scott, one of the top-U.S. construction and salvage firms, is going into the steel business. Having recently bought the Milton (Pa.) Electric Steel Corp., it now wants to buy a second steelmaker, the $31 million Newport (Ky.) Steel Corp., which has an annual ingot capacity of 709,000 net tons. The offer: one share of Merritt-Chapman stock (value: $28½ per share) for every 2.1 shares (1,078,547 outstanding) of Newport Steel...
Kinsey moved on to Harvard and took up wild food. He became as expert in this as in everything else that he has chosen to study. By 1920, with the late Merritt Lyndon Fernald, he finished his first book: Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (not published until 1943). For the distinguished members of the New England Botanical Club, Kinsey and Fernald spent days preparing a wild dinner: cold pigweed salad, pickles from cucumber root, bread from the acorns of swamp white oaks, squawberries, a cake of ground hickory nuts filled with blueberries and topped with maple syrup...
...Merritt, who is at present spending a year of research in Europe, served as chairman of the Music Department from 1942 to 1952. An authority on music of the sixteenth century, he is the author of "Sixteenth Century Counterpoint...
...Merritt has been here since 1932. He was made an assistant professor in 1936, associate professor in 1939, and a professor...