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...drive closed yesterday after collecting $1692.54, $492.54 over the $1200 goal set, John F. Kennedy '40, chairman of the drive, announced last night. "The Committee would like to thank the members of the College for their keen response to the plea of the Red Cross," Kennedy said. "That the quota should have been exceeded by such a large amount is a credit to Harvard and the student body...
...Indiana, Kentucky, Montana. Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wyoming. Both have claimed votes in Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, although these States had selected more than one Republican delegation, faced seating contests at the convention. Many a Republican State boss still sat mum on the sidelines, planned to use his quota of votes to make an effective deal at the convention, or toss them on to the band wagon as it rolled...
Ballet dates from the lace-pants centuries, when kings and nobles were its patrons. Modern balletomanes, a tribe with a better-than-average quota of lacy characters, could probably think of likelier patrons of the ballet than Big Business-especially such a big business as Ford Motor Co. Yet at the New York World's Fair, Ford became the ballet's first industrial patron by launching a 17-minute production called A Thousand Times Neigh. A free show, performed twelve times a day in a plushy new $500,000 theatre in the Ford building, the ballet is done...
...collected in the first week of the student drive for the Red Cross war relief fund, chairman John F. Kennedy '40, announced yesterday. Most of this was in large donations, he added, stating that the response from the student body would have to be much greater if the Harvard quota of $1,200 was to be reached...
...quota we have set for Harvard is $1200. Anything over that" he added, "would be a measure of students' sympathy for the war-afflicted peoples of Europe. The Committee hopes that every member of the College will take part in the drive by making some contribution, no matter how small...