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...spring U. S. college administrators traditionally pause to reappraise their faculties, promote promising men, reappoint others, bundle a few off to look for new jobs. In Lincoln, Neb. fortnight ago word reached John P. Weller, 39, an instructor in the University of Nebraska's French Department, that in June he would be eased out with a year's leave of absence at half...
...Philip Donatelli is the orchestra's winemaker, father of seven daughters. Two Spanish Torellos play in the double-bass section. Father Anton is an oldster in the Orchestra. His son Carl is there to follow in his footsteps. Trumpeter Saul Caston is conducting in Evansville, Phoenix and Holdrege, Neb. Caston conducted first at a Dell summer concert in 1931, when Albert Coates was suddenly taken ill. For a few hair-raising moments then, there was no Coates and no Caston, who had been arrested for speeding on his way from Atlantic City. Caston arrived pale and out-of-breath...
...Cities and towns in the Philadelphia's itinerary: Hartford, Boston, Springfield, Toronto, Chicago, Urbana, Ill., Evansville, Ind., Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, Little Rock, Dallas, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Holdrege, Neb., Omaha, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, Manhattan...
...late this year, to discover who is the safest bus driver in the U. S. Owen Meredith of Enid. Okla. drove 976,800 miles without scratching a fender. Ancel Mistier of Sedalia, Mo. turned up with a no-accident record of 950,000 miles. But "Pop" Haselwood of Chappell, Neb. in 20 years had driven 1,772,651 miles without a ''chargeable" accident. Driver Haselwood's formula: "Drive like the other guy is crazy...
...shape, ran a one-man, one-car busline. After two years he sold out, drove for a half-dozen bus companies. Since 1929 he has driven for Omaha's Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 21g-mile run between North Platte. Neb. and Cheyenne. Wyo.. one way or the other, six days a week. When passing an oncoming car he sights the road edge over his radiator cap. gets his right-hand tires on the brink of the paving. Three times automobiles or trucks have bumped him. In every case his bus was standing stock-still...