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...North Carolina, which, with 13 victories, two losses, led the Southern Conference until in the first round of a post-season tournament in Raleigh its team was put out by Washington & Lee. Duke won that tournament, is thus technically rated champion...
...When a president dies, hire a new office boy," is the pet maxim of big Standard Oil Co. of California. Last month Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide...
Died. Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, 61, president of Standard Oil Co. of California; of a heart attack; on board the Grace Liner Santa Paula, in the Panama Canal...
...this year), finally succumbed-but not exclusively-to the Kellogg Co. (Corn Flakes), which also has contracts with the University of Oklahoma, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Nebraska and Fordham. Michigan State has signed up with the Olds division of General Motors and the University of Iowa with Brown & Williamson (Sir Walter Raleigh) Tobacco Corp. For the third year Humble Oil & Refining Co. of Houston will have a monopoly of Southwest Conference games. On the Pacific Coast, Associated Oil Co. ("Let's Get Associated") began its twelfth and biggest broadcasting season, during which it will sponsor about 100 "sportcasts" at a cost...
...Barnes), wife of a confection tycoon, owns a horse named Star Gazer, beloved by Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell) whose father bred him. With the horse, Manhattan-bound in a stockcar, Horsetrainers Sonny (George Murphy) and Peter (Buddy Ebsen) find Sally tucked up in the feed. A Manhattan playwright, Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor), whose show Caroline is backing, finances Sally's auction bid for Star Gazer, tries to cast her as his leading lady. Jealous, Caroline withdraws her backing. At this point only juvenile or feeble-minded members of the audience will fail to perceive that, if the show...