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...Beaverbrook reserved his most telling comeback for the section Driberg devoted to some of the old man's endearing qualities. One of the Beaver's newsmen urgently needed ?1,000, the biographer recounted. He asked Beaverbrook if he could borrow the sum and repay it out of salary. Next day the general manager summoned the journalist and told him that there was a strict office rule against such advances. "But," he added, "Lord Beaverbrook has instructed me to make you a free gift of ?1,000. Here is a check." Biographer Driberg praised this act of kindness...
Years ago Harvard University was known around the world as being "a rich man's school." Just recently, to my astonishment, I was told by one of Harvard's "finest" that more than seventy-five percent of the present students are attending school on loans which they repay after graduation. This seems to me to be very beneficial to the students, because it teaches them perseverance. But, could you tell me what makes them act in the way they...
Loan policies in the other Graduate Schools differ widely. According to John U. Munro '34, Director of Financial Aid at the College and administrator of a University-wide loan fund, a School usually builds its policy around the expected ability of its students to repay after graduation...
...attempted to ram through a roadblock. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail for bootlegging, was later handed over to the Denver police to face the forgery charges. But when his family offered $2,500 in partial restitution on the stolen $4,200 and promised that Jack would repay the rest, the boy was put on probation...
...genius. His name: Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), renowned as "the king of chefs and the chef of kings." He plied King George V with variations of one of the monarch's favorite dishes, cream cheese. He fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne. "How can I repay you?" the Kaiser asked. "Give us back Alsace-Lorraine," the Frenchman replied...