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...Sally Rand, well-nigh immortal fandangler, sponsored a scholarship at the University of Illinois, handed a $1,000 check to its temporary custodian, Harold ("Red") Grange, football's famed Galloping Ghost of the early...
...Campbell, Jr. '47 has been elected president of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770, the Pudding announced yesterday. Other new officers include Craig P. Gilbert '47, vice-president: J. Bradley Cummings, 3rd '46, krokodllis; David S. Biddle '49, librarian: Francis H. Cabot, Jr., '50, secretary; and John R. Rand '50, treasurer...
...horror, where they suffer either from the crush of registration or the torture of exams. Only rarely are the riotous days of the past recalled. Mem most recently shuddered from the sedate heights of its 170 foot tower down to the base of its firm foundation when Sally Rand lectured to a Freshman Smoker in 1941 on the subject "What the Average College Stage Door Johnny Is Looking for When He Stage Door Jennies a Burlesque House Stage Door...
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...
...Chemie's claim is not upheld, Rand figures he still has a good chance to acquire full ownership of G.A.F. A presidential directive forbids the licensing of any seized patents as long as any minority stockholder objects, and no one would want to buy G.A.F. without its valuable patents. Thus Rand could, in effect, forestall G.A.F.'s sale until all other bidders lost interest, and he could pick up G.A.F. at a bargain price...