Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Donelli is putting most of his offensive hopes on Giles' shoulders, John Toner, the brains behind the T, is looked upon by Donelli as the one person who can make or break this ball game. Toner has come a long ways since he was third string quarterback a year ago. He's only a sophomore and if Donelli's word is good, Toner's name will be more than whispered for All-American honors before he leaves school...
...perhaps to the intriguing nature of the mysterious, scarcely a person passes the mushrooming "Science City" on Oxford Street without a fearful glance through the fence to see whether the men from Mars have arrived. Yet little more than a hoarse shout away from the Home of Secret Weapons is an underground room where precautions are just as stringent. In a small, feverish nook in the cellar of the Music Building, the University Band holds its council of war, and there, amidst sousaphones and bandstands, it plots the marching formations and intricate parade tactics that are forever eluding every other...
...Years-Club, I would say that the kind of discussion [in the Great Books groups] is much different from the impression given. In a discussion whose single dominant character is that no one knows very much about the book under consideration, the absence of an informed person usually means that . . . intellectual humility is also absent. What usually happens is that people say, in a very solemn voice, things they would not dream of saying anywhere else...
...first reading, it looked like the chance of a lifetime. A rayon mill took a one-column display ad in the new York Times to hunt a "person of exceptional ability" to sit on its board of directors. Starting salary: $25,000 a year. All anyone had to do to land the job was get the company 15,000 Ibs. a month of four different kinds of rayon yarn. Only the textile industry knew what that condition meant: an extreme improbability. By last week, rayon yarn was so scarce that the scramble for it made the 1946 nylon search look...
...report, including the proposal that the Council vote for affiliation, will be submitted in person by the three delegates and their alternates who took part in the seven-day convention at Madison. They are Francis D. Fischer '48, Frederrick D. Houghteling '50, Selig S. Harrison, '48, William J. Richard, Jr. '49, David C. Poskanzer '50, and Weld himself...