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Ellsberg used the pontoon method successfully in raising the U.S. submarines S-51, S-4, and the Squalus. Ellsberg's nephew, Daniel Ellsberg '52, said he would be glad to try to persuade the Captain to supervise the operation, if the necessary money were raised...
Died. Edward Agar Horatio Nelson, fifth Earl Nelson, 90, great-great nephew of Britain's Admiral Nelson (1758-1805) and last to get the "perpetual" ?5,000-a-year pension to Nelson's heirs; in London. The Socialist government unilaterally canceled Britannia's promise to the man who made her Mistress of the Seas...
...statement: "This letter, if it is from Dr. Phelps, reveals that he has taken a position that is not in accord with the policies laid down by the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society . . ." The statement added that Missionary Phelps (Yale '17), a nephew of Yale's late, beloved English Professor William Lyon (Billy) Phelps, was "a grand person," but at times "unpredictable...
...Academy as comfortably as if he were in stir, it takes some feverish scripting to get him there. A down-at-heel Broadway genius, he is hired by a producer ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point the hard way. From there...
...plan was the brainchild of Robert Waters, son of the company's president and nephew of the founder. He already has more than 300 leased cars on the road, and is averaging 75 new leases a week. Under Waters' plan, the lessee gets a brand-new car with radio and heater for a $50 deposit, pays an average rental of $72 a month, tax deductible if the car is used for business. Waters picks up the tab for repairs and servicing. The car user pays only for insurance (collision and liability), gas and oil. After 18 months...