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Because Jews in Russia 50 years ago stood little chance of getting ahead and were almost sure to be fair game for Cossacks at some time in their lives, Harris Nevin emigrated to the U. S. He dug ditches for the Pennsylvania R. R., drove mules in a coal mine, finally hit upon peddling. Peddling was so much better than coal mining that he soon opened a store. After a while he sold the store and went back to Russia for a year's visit...
...taking to Russia any better than he had as a boy, he returned to sell Singer sewing machines in Pittsburgh. From that he went to life insurance and then to Manhattan real estate. In 1921 Harris Nevin built 500 houses in Jamaica...
...trolley line serving his development failed. To keep tenants in the 500 houses, his two sons had to drive second-hand buses between the development and the railroad station. Whatever his sons may have thought, bus operating was not so bad for Harris Nevin. He incorporated his two buses into a $250,000 company. In 1924 he started one of the first interstate bus lines in the East, between Manhattan and Philadelphia, with Wanamaker department stores as terminals. Since then he has bought up some 40 lines radiating throughout the East and South, has abandoned real estate for good...
Following the meeting at Notman's Studio this afternoon at 1.15 o'clock for the annual Varsity football picture, the election of next year's team captain will be held. J. H. Dean '34, T. W. Nazro '34, C. J. Nevin '34, and H. K. Wells are the regulars who have seen the most service...
...center on last year's Freshman five; and Dorman, who played regular guard on the Varsity a year ago, but who will probably be used in the pivot position this year; for guard: Hageman, Huppuch, and Reisner, all members of last year's quintet; for forward: Levan, Merry, Matursevitch, Nevin, Ferriter, and Fletcher, all of whom played on the Varsity last year except Fletcher, who was a regular on the 1935 quintet...