Word: penns
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Trying for its first Ivy League fencing victory, the varsity fencing team lost to a surprisingly tough Penn squad, 16 to 11, Saturday at Philadelphia. The Crimson won in foil, 7 to 2, with captain Bill Trebilcock taking three straight bouts, but the Quakers reversed the foil score in the other two divisions. Tonight the varsity will travel to Worcester for a contest with Holy Cross...
Roly-poly M. (for Marion) Penn Phillips, 70. claims he has sold more parcels of land (an estimated 100,000) than any other man alive. What is more remarkable is that most of the land was among the most forsaken and forbidding in the U.S.: the western desert, burned by searing sun and swept by fierce sand storms. Phillips and the 100 land development companies he heads have been prime movers in the great California desert boom. Once a death trap to pioneers, the desert's rock and sand wastes, with their harsh beauty, dry, pollen-free...
...father's ranch in the Oklahoma panhandle, Penn Phillips was taught about the value of land. Says he: "The nastiest thing my mother ever said about anybody was, 'They're just renters.' " He gave up a chance at college to go into business, became a real estate man during the Florida land boom, moved to California in 1921, where he built up a stake selling lots. His biggest successes came after World War II, when he recognized that the logical outlet for California's pressing population was the desert...
...Penn Phillips is busy planning future desert developments, has already participated in the purchase of another 80,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert for $9,000,000. Gazing at the great Mojave from the window of his private plane, Penn Phillips predicted: "That desert is going to be the cradle of a vast amount of our population...
Ever since the disputed 18-9 Penn victory two years ago in Philadelphia, meets between the two teams have taken place in an air of thinly veiled hostility. When the varsity lost in 1957, most observers blamed the loss on partisan Penn officials...