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...appeared to be making the most of his opportunity. A seven-day-week worker, he rode the T.W.A. routes restlessly in search of flaws in passenger service, routed out T.W.A. executives to make them ride the routes on their days off, and trimmed the payroll. T.W.A.'s financial postion improved markedly. By the end of September, T.W.A. managed to show a nine-month 1957 profit of $2,400,000 v. $2,300,000 loss...
...three Ed Harding pushed through in two games, while John J. Mortimer, four, easily downed his opponent also in straight sets. Only Enos Richardson at five was forced to play three games to defeat Anson Beard at the five postion...
...Strobl has designed some 30 monuments, modeled innumerable portrait busts, and won a commanding postion in the middle-European art world. A diplomatic fellow, who gets along with the Russians without antagonizing too much those who don't, he returned last year from a month's visit to England and immediately accepted an invitation to tour Russia. George Bernard Shaw, whom De Strobl once "busted," neatly ticketed the sculptor's somewhat bland art when he described the portrait of himself as being "what I should like to look like. Perhaps I shall some day, if I contemplate...
...competition for Varsity manager starts at the opening of the Freshman year, when all aspirants battle for the postion of Yardling manager. Five men are chosen to continue the competition...
Shortly afterwards a delegation of post-office clerks, called at the White House and the President said: " You are a picked body, holding your postion not by favor, not by the good graces of any man or any set of men, but by reason of an examination...