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...Connecticut has adopted a plan to recruit liberal arts graduates. Instead of going through the usual pedagogical treadmill, candidates can take one special two-month course to earn a one-year emergency certificate. Today, says the commission, Connecticut has "become one of the few states nearing a balance of elementary teacher supply and demand...
Morehead Patterson (Yale '20, Oxford, and Harvard Law School '24) joined his father's firm in 1926 after he had taken a one-year fling at the law. He watched the company, with its cushion of royalties, sail through the Depression, paying dividends every year. But he decided that no company could expect to live on its patents forever. Says Patterson: "We could tell by 1938 that after 1946 we were going to have dividends of only half of what we had been counting...
...letter to O'Malley & Co. In forceful phrases, the letter pointed out that the managers of several also-rans had got three-year contracts: Charley Grimm of the second-place Milwaukee Braves, Eddie Stanky of the fourth-place St. Louis Cardinals. Even Leo Durocher-especially Leo Durocher-of the fifth-place New-York Giants, had been given a two-year contract. Charley Dressen demanded a raise-(from $32,500) and something better than a one-year contract; three years, or at the very least, two. In September it made a good case. Charley's mistake was to carry...
...Charley changed his mind, he could have his job again, for a year. But by next day the front-office line had a fare-thee-well note to it. Said O'Malley: "It is inconceivable to me that Charley would humiliate himself and ask for a one-year contract at this point...
While the Council deserves praise for initiating and--until now--maintaining the exchange program, this incident underlines the mistake of cherishing independence above cooperation. It is now too late to avoid the one-year gap in the German exchange plan, but this breakdown should show the Council the folly of headstrong separation from University Hall...