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After two pleasant sojourns in the prop school realm, Coach Lloyd Harper's freshman basketball team moves back into college competition tonight. They will meet MIT in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Foundation began by sponsoring concerts in Washington similar to those at South Mountain. Its realm soon enlarged, however, to publications, radio, bringing European musicians to America, awarding medals for outstanding service to chamber music, continuing to commission new works, and, perhaps most important, beginning a program of free "extension concerts" in Europe and in educational and cultural institutions in the United States...
...Many Slide Rules. In addition, AEC was charged with failing to bring certain problems out of the physicist's slide-rule realm into the everyday trial-&-error world of engineers who might solve them and perhaps make good use of the results in other industries. For example, Committee Member Isaac Harter, director of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., got an idea from an atomic process that helped his company refine its continuous steel casting process...
...creating a memorial? The feeling which should be sought is one of reflex action on the spirit of the beholder, to awaken a vital, motivating incentive to higher and nobler sacrificial patriotic living. The utilitarian type, with its appeal chiefly to the physical senses, fails completely to touch the realm of the spirit. Is there any more "practical" or more "useful" ambition than to aim to consummate a memorial so designed and so executed as to keep over before the senses of passers-by the devotion to duty of those we seek to honor...
Many an industrialist has come to consider him a vastly capable business executive. In his impressive office in Seattle's Teamsters' Hall, he flips through correspondence at split-second speed and barks out advice and orders to every point of his realm by long-distance telephone. He drives to work in a 1947 Cadillac. Although he is paid $25,000 a year, he lives modestly in the same five-room Ravenna District bungalow in which he and his wife started housekeeping...