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...traveling salesman, Missouri-born David Murdock quit school in the tenth grade to go to work, was paying his own way even before that. Says he: "I can remember mowing lawns when I was so small I couldn't get both hands up to the lawn-mower handle." After a World War II stint in the Air Force, he drifted into Phoenix with a young wife, a trailer, and a $12,000 stake he had earned running a short-order restaurant in Detroit...
Dean von Stade reported that the administration has decided on the following complexes: Grays-Wigglesworth; Matthews-Massachusetts-Straus; Weld-Thayer; Hollis-Stoughton-Holworthy-Lionel-Mower; and Greenough-Pennypacker-Hurlburt. The groups may be dubbed according to their geographical location: next year's freshmen in Matthews-Mass-Straus may know their home as "southwest Yard...
...Michigan farm boy who quit school in the sixth grade to become a piano-key fitter, bought a gas station on the installment plan, invested the profits in a Detroit pool hall, and then began buying up faltering businesses,* finally organizing a multimillion-dollar net of farm machine, lawn mower, and auto parts factories under the parent Mast-Foos Co., of which he was president until his death; of complications following surgery for lung cancer; in Detroit. On the theory that "happy employees do a better job," during his last 40 years in business Winslow deluged his delighted workers with...
...freshman class has elected David I. Oyama '64, of Wigglesworth Hall and Chicago; Marc J. Roberts '64, of Grays Hall and Bayonno, N.J.; Joseph M. Russin '64, of Wigglesworth Hall and Laramie, Wyo.; and John Thorndike '64, of Mower Hall and Exeter, N.H. to serve on the Student Council during the Fall term next year...
Dudley House took the Intramural Boxing Championship last night at the as of its four entrants won their bouts. The freshman competition was by Mower, although two of its three wins were uncontested...