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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single goal: "A million before I'm 30." In the effort to turn out professional men and women rather than mere moneygrubbers, the educators are stressing original research to improve business management, service to society instead of solely the profit motive. A handful of universities, notably Harvard, Dartmouth, N. Y. U., Michigan, Stanford, have graduate schools of business requiring college graduation for entrance...
...Bailey Hall in Ithaca, N. Y., Sociologist Edmund Ezra Day, 53, was installed as fifth president of Cornell University, proceeded to denounce "armed, aggressive and arrogant" force abroad, to issue this defiance: "When men in power conclude that ideas should come from authority and not from thought, men of reason must give battle...
Publisher Funk's new monthly venture appeared last week, a 128-page 25? "Popular Guide to Desirable Living," Your Life-in format similar to Reader's Digest, whose printers (Rumford Press) also produce Your Life. To launch the new monthly, Mr. Funk formed Kingsway Press Inc., Scarsdale, N. Y., with part of the reported $200.000 proceeds from the sale of Literary Digest, made Brother-in-Law Bert C. Miller president. Vice president is Douglas E. Lurton. onetime supervising editor for Fawcett Publications, and managing editor of Literary Digest during its last year. Edited by Douglas Lurton, Your Life...
Prime golfing axiom is that a medalist rarely wins a tournament. Last year in the U. S. Women's Championship at Summit, N. J., Medalist Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page, according to everybody's expectations, did not survive the third round. This year at Memphis, again medalist in the women's national tournament. Mrs. Page refused to be flustered, stayed calm even through such matches as one in which her opponent after a lusty swing lost her skirt. So last week Mrs. Page met 19-year-old Patty Berg, runner-up to Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare...
Most women golfers good enough to try for the U. S. championship are persistent matrons like Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who was playing in her 13th national tournament last week, or enthusiastic youngsters like Patty Berg. Mrs. Page, 29, is neither. Wife of an accountant in Greensboro. N. C. she first took up golf for her health, has played only six years...