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Last week as the temperature rose steadily, the Tanana ice-jam began moving, drawing the wire taut. At 8:04 p. m. May 12 the trigger was tripped, the clock stopped, making Mervin E. Anderson, 31-year-old Fairbanks bus driver, whose guess of 8:02 p. m. was nearest correct, some $75,000 richer. Day before Guesser Anderson split with another guesser the $3,500 first prize in another similar pool based on the movement of ice in the Chena River at Fairbanks...
Otis Resignations. In 1899 Charles Augustus Otis founded the banking house of Otis & Co. Sixteen years later he made young Cyrus Stephen Eaton a partner. Last week Charles Augustus Otis resigned from the firm bearing his name as did Partner Mervin Clark Harvey. Both will go to E. A. Pierce & Co., buyer of the brokerage business of Otis & Co. Other influential Otis & Co. partners who have resigned include Joseph Oriel Eaton (no relation to Cyrus), Richard Inglis, Ferdinand Eberstadt. Cyrus Eaton remained, comparatively alone...
University of Idaho has been shopping for a president ever since last June when Frederick James Kelly, onetime Dean of Administration at the University of Minnesota, quarrelled with the State Board of Education about money matters and resigned. Last week Idaho acquired for its eighth president Mervin Gordon Neale, who has also served time on the Minnesota faculty but whose chief work was done at his alma mater, the University of Missouri, where he has been Dean of Education since...
Married. Elinor Latane, daughter of Sociologist John Holladay Latane who is Professor of History and onetime faculty dean at Johns Hopkins University; and William Truesdale Bissell, son of Richard Mervin Bissell who is president of Hartford Insurance Co.; in Paris...
Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.) Mervin Grant Filler, college dean (Dickinson ) D.Litt...