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Most ordinary Britons bank with "The Big Five," a quintet of commercial banks* with deluges of deposits from branches around the world. But in London, 17 smaller merchant banks, most of them family-dominated, rank as "The Princes of the City." The biggest of the tight-mouthed princes, who ignore common customers for corporations and countries, is Hambros Bank, Ltd., which has arranged financing for Scandinavian timber, South African diamonds and $20 million worth of Manhattan's Pan Am Building. In a move symbolic of the new direction that London's princely bankers are now taking, Hambros...
...been a long, hard year so far for the Yardling basketball team. Harvard's freshman quintet has a record of no wins and five losses. The closest they have come to a win was a 68-65 loss to M.I.T...
With a 2-1 Ivy record, Harvard stands in fourth place behind Cornell (4-1), Penn (3-1), and Princeton (3-1). This weekend's results must be encouraging to Crimson followers; last week the quintet whipped giant-killing Columbia, and lost by a scant three points to Cornell...
Dartmouth's basketball team put on a dazzling display of all-around ineptitude at the IAB last night and absorbed a 74-52 shellacking from the Crimson quintet...
...victory was Harvard's last contest before intersession; the quintet returns to Ivy Competition at Brown January...