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Mental discipline in organization, straight-forward writing, and elimnation of unnecessary words would improve the quality of newspaper writing, the Niemans suggested, And "there are plenty of ways of getting around the standard top-heavy from of the story." Articles should not be jammed into a set pyramid style of writing when a narrative method would serve more effectively, one Fellow asserted...
From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...
...when did the cultural elements (art forms, techniques, tools, customs) move across the Pacific? Dr. Ekholm does not know, but he suspects that the early high civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley, characterized by agriculture, pottery-making and pyramid-building, set up a cultural tremor that lapped most of the world. Traders, explorers, fugitives and raiders carried the techniques with them, just as their modern equivalents carry the catching customs of modern industrialism. Probably faint cultural ripples, relayed slowly from people to people, and from island to island for thousands of years, finally crossed the ocean...
...Triangle Club. 5. Pyramid Club...
...with Cohn-Hall-*Marx, a big textile converter. Young Jake had a knack for figures, studied nights to improve it. By 1928 he had risen to treasurer. In that year, Bankers Kidder, Peabody & Co. raised about $20 million to make Cohn-Hall-Marx the base of a textile pyramid integrating many different businesses in the cotton-rayon industry. The new giant was United Merchants & Manufacturers Inc. and Jake Schwab went in as treasurer. He stepped into the president's shoes...