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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graduate students in Social Relations live "too high off the hog" to seek teaching fellowships at the College, Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, said yesterday. So many scholarships are available for graduates in the field, that they do not accept "fairly low-paid teaching fellowships, even though the positions do not require too much time," he added...
...Island, nine new hotels have sprung up in the past five years. The Howard Johnson-run Nassau Beach Lodge opened in February; rushing to completion is Lyford Cay, a combination club-real estate development masterminded by international beer baron and financier Edward Plunket Taylor of Toronto. In 1955 Taylor paid $2,000,000 for 4,000 acres of underbrush 17 miles west of Nassau, making him the second biggest landowner on New Providence (after Eunice Lady Oakes and her children, heirs to the 7,000 acres of the late Sir Harry Oakes). He has laid...
...office, and the scramble for the little statuettes was long and rough. Since most of the Academy's 2,087 voters are in Hollywood, the trade papers were barraged with publicity as carefully aimed as that in any congressional race. Actor David Niven, clearly a red-hot contender, paid for some $1,500 worth of personal ads for himself. His producers, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. shelled out even more. "We evaluate the opposition," explained one film flack, "and figure how we go from there...
Trade-Ins. The key to Ayer's success is the way he sells. He does not merely dump airplanes for a price, but first makes sure that they can be used and comfortably paid for. For small lines, which do not always know what is best for them, he sends in men to analyze routes, cargo business and profits. Since his credit is better than that of many small lines, and "he can pay off his big purchases as he receives payments for his sales, he can give airlines credit terms that many would not get themselves. Equally important...
Yankee Dollars. In Maracaibo, Venezuela, Javier Gonzalez' dentist grabbed him on the street, took back the gold teeth Javier had not paid...