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...latest squabble was started by Remington Rand, Inc., reported to be the largest minority stockholder in G.A.F. (the Government owns 97%). Rand, maker of photographic as well as office equipment, seeks control of G.A.F., whose 3,500 patents make it the richest of all plums in Alien Property's hands. Chairman and President James H. Rand, 60, a brisk, bulky individualist who will go the limit to have his own way, loudly charged that the Government's Alien Property Custodian had been entirely wrong in seizing G.A.F. in the first place soon after World War II began...
Though some businessmen were baffled by the sudden uproar, Rand knew very well what he was doing. The Government had seized G.A.F. in the belief that G.A.F.'s Swiss parent, I.G. Chemie, was a front for Germany's I.G. Farben. But since the war's end I.G. Chemie has intensified its claims that it never was any such thing. Remington has bought large interests in I.G. Chemie-and in Interhandel, its corporate successor. If Rand can prove that U.S. seizure of G.A.F. was unwarranted, it will have to be returned to the Swiss, with whom his chances...
Immediately after the destruction of the abbey, a group of U.S. sponsors had organized as the Friends of Monte Cassino. They included Swarthmore's ex-President Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Harvard's classicist Professor E. K. Rand, Princeton's medievalist Dr. E. A. Lowe (who had studied at Monte Cassino) and Morgan Librarian Dr. Belle da Costa Greene. They had issued a statement, conveying "to the Abbot and monks of Monte Cassino, now in exile, the expression of our sorrow and sympathy in this hour of tragedy and trial. We . . . ardently wish to contribute our mite to hasten...
Also in the chorus are: Alden A. Larson '48; Robert W. Locke 2nd '47; Austin F. Lyne '48; Daniel J. Lyne '49; Eugene Lyne ocC; David E. McGiffert '49; Arthur B. Nichols '48; Robert B. Owen '47; Robert L. Purinton '46; John R. Rand '50; Robert E. Zaugg...
Choice items now sold are former professor of Latin E. K. Rand's collection of classics and textbooks. For the collector of esoterica there are quantities of old Baedekers, a "History of Harvard," by Samuel A. Eliot, and "Harvard Memories," of Charles W. Eliot...