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...addition, the inconsistency of gradeinflation between sciences and humanities mayinappropriately influence students' choice offield, Cole said. He said some students may decideto study the humanities because they are likely toreceive better grades than in a natural sciencefield...
...circle of the area every 15 minutes. The buggy also is used when residents visit their neighbors. There are some 70 homes on the point, two-or three-storied with numerous sun porches and beautifully kept lawns leading down to the shore. Among the house owners are Wrigley Offield, scion of the chewing gum clan, Elton MacDonald, creator of Plaid Stamps, and Frederick S. Ford, a director of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass. The Harbor Point Association carefully screens anyone wishing
Once long before, he lived on dog biscuits rather than quit vaudeville. A raw bumpkin out of Sedalia, Mo., where he was born in 1903 and christened Lewis Delaney Offield, he went to Manhattan and got his first job-phone clerk in the New York Stock Exchange. It still gives him a solid pleasure to revisit the Exchange from time to time and gaze upon his former employment from the dignified visitors' gallery...
Left By the late William Wrigley Jr., an estate of "at least $22,500,000"; to his widow Mrs. Ada E. Wrigley, his son Philip K., his daughter Mrs. Dorothy Wrigley Offield. In addition Philip Wrigley receives the Chicago Cubs baseball club. Not included in this accounting, largest ever filed in Illinois, are homes and properties in Arizona and California, including Catalina Island for which he once refused...
Jack Oakie (Lewis Delaney Offield) was born in Sedalia, Mo. His Scotch mother was a schoolteacher; his Irish father was in the hay business. The family moved to Manhattan and Oakie went to school at De La Salle High, left school to be a telephone clerk for a brokerage house, left brokerage to be a chorus boy in Innocent Eyes. He took funny bit-parts in several revues, then went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Wesley Ruggles who cast him for nothing much in Finders Keepers. Critics picked him out, Paramount put him on contract, recently made...
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