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Nicos Vernicos, 34, scion of an old Mediterranean shipping family, was named president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic passenger carriers (Italia, Atlantic, Homeric, Roma, Nassau, Homeland). Vernicos was picked and trained for the job by his shrewd bachelor godfather, Eugen Eugenides, who was boss of the line till his death last April. Vernicos was born in Sifnos, Greece, educated at the University of London, worked for Swedish State Railways and S.K.F. before joining the Home Lines...
...Bermuda race; R.J. Schaefer's Edlu I, winner of the 1934 Bermuda; Henry Morgan's Djinn, winner of the Seawanhaka Cup in 1947; Stormy Weather, winner of the ocean race to Norway and the Florida Trophy; R. J. Reynolds' Blitzen, winner of the Miami-Nassau...
Thousands of loyal sons of Nassau and Cambridge treated the Lampoon-written article defaming Princeton as a case of juvenile humor, but not so the Princeton administration, which felt the issue was the culmination of a series of Harvard slurs on its good name. The incident led into a string of articles appearing in national magazines which dragged "dirty football" and Signet rings onto the gridiron for a public airing which did little good, and only intensified already heated feeling on the place of the football giant in undergraduate life...
Princeton University's graduating class of '54, in the annual poll to determine future superlatives, waggishly voted as "least likely to succeed," the school's history-drenched Nassau Hall, gave No. 2 place to Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 21, son of New York's governor...
...Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel in Nassau). But by & large, the big Texas fortunes are now founded on oil and the liberal tax provisions that go with it. Samples: ¶Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 65, of Dallas, who got his start running one of the tables in an Arkansas gambling house, is probably rivaled only by Sid Richardson...