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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last session of the conference they turned to their biggest worry of all: whether or not to ask for federal aid. They decided in favor of asking-by endorsing a system of federal scholarships for college students. Such a plan would be in line with the $120 million proposal made by the President's Commission on Higher Education. But that didn't mean that the educators liked everything the commission had said. They had not completely forgotten the "higher standards" Kenneth Brown had spoken of; nor were they in favor of blindly distributing scholarships without a stiff examination...
...suburban community of the ancient Westphalian city of Bielefeld-a sprawling colony of hospitals and asylums that for nearly a century has been a center of German religious charities-120 leading Calvinists, Lutherans and Unionists gathered last week from every part of Germany. Representing Germany's 35 million Protestants, they were holding the first regular meeting of EKID (Evangelical Church in Germany), under a brand-new ecclesiastical constitution...
Ripples & Barrel Rolls. Two years ago, when Hickey first came to St. Louis U., he inherited a team of St. Louis boys (all his first-team men this year are local products). Then he taught them his basketball axiom: "It is a game of a million situations." He kept a piece of chalk handy and was forever getting on one knee to sketch new situations on the floor. His basic offense was a fast break that could evolve into a ripple of finger-tip passes that he called a Barrel Roll, or "a million" other combinations. Men like Macauley...
...Oyster Bay, N.Y. The No. 1 book salesman of his time, he took over the business from his father, bought out the Literary Guild in 1934, ended up operating six book clubs, a nationwide chain of bookstores, two reprint and mail-order houses (his presses ran off 30 million books in 1948). As a child he persuaded Rudyard Kipling to write Just So Stories, collected a 1? royalty on each copy sold in his lifetime...
...first big postwar coming-out party, the debut of the 1949 Chevrolet and Pontiac, General Motors Corp. had spent a million dollars. The world's biggest automaker had bundled threescore U.S. automotive editors (and plenty of potables) aboard its Astra Domed, diesel-drawn "Train of Tomorrow," for a free ride from Detroit to New York. It would pick up the tab for a three-day whirl of luncheons, receptions and banquets for 5,000 people. All over the U.S., G.M. dealers were also cutting capers; Omaha Chevrolet dealers sent a flagpole sitter aloft for nine days...