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Mathematician George Abram Miller never had any children of his own, but his students at the University of Illinois liked to call him "Papa." A stubby, white-thatched little man who always kept a box of nuts handy for the squirrels, he was an expert on the theory of finite groups, published more than 800 learned articles, owned one of the best private mathematical libraries in the U.S. But for all his brilliance, Papa Miller had a distracted air that sometimes seemed complete bewilderment. He was hopeless with a car, helpless with a furnace, and he invariably began his sentences...
...after he retired from his $6,000-a-year professorship, Papa Miller threw himself into a strange hobby. "Everything I have," he once told his lawyer, "I received from the university, and I want to repay my obligation." And so, knowing nothing at all about business...
...Papa Miller began buying stocks, hoping that some day he would have something substantial to leave behind. He bought solely on intuition-shares in Southern Union Gas Co. (he happened to believe in natural gas), Pickering Lumber Corp. and Brink's. Inc. He bought some 12,000 shares of the American Furniture Mart Building Co. of Chicago, watched it climb from 37 to $12.50. By the time he died in 1951, he was the wonder of his brokers. "The old gentleman knew nothing about stocks," said one. "He bought what we call undervalued situations-a company which for some...
...leave him "strictly speechless," but, for my money, not speechless enough ... If little school" Johnny can was hardly tardy 32 be times blamed in for one that year, fact the ... If six wallops with a birch cane were what Jonathan needed (as it turned out, big surprise), let Papa Hill know that birch canes are for sale in New York as well as in Lon don, and it is his legal duty to apply the cane. Is it an indictment of the American public school system that Mr. Hill is a failure as a parent...
Although Faust is one of the Met's most popular shows,* it has not had its face lifted since Papa Monteux made his Met debut with it in 1917. So this year it got a $75.000 rejuvenation: new sets and costumes by Rolf Gerard, new staging by Britain's Peter Brook, and a cast of the Met's brightest stars. Director Brook listened to the music carefully, decided that its sentimental tunes and melting harmonies belonged in a French romantic setting, despite the fact that Goethe's dramatic poem was laid in 16th century Germany...