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Promoter of this deft plan is scrappy, flash-quick Robert Ralph Young (TIME, Dec. 28), whose rambling Alleghany Corp. owns 60% of MOP common and $11,000,000 in 5½% convertible bonds. Usually a rooter for rail debt reduction, Bob Young boiled over when he first saw the ICC plan: Alleghany's huge holdings in MOP common were tossed out entirely, its 5½% bonds were treated almost as badly. When he took another look he got madder still: the big insurance companies (holding the topflight bonds) would control the road...
Perhaps Rushing doesn't impart the poignant feeling of a Bessie Smith to his rendition, but he performs his usual entertaining, ultra-nasal job. As for the Count, he apparently is a Harvard rooter, after doing a turn over the Crimson Network last spring, for he gives the number an extra special treatment. There is some excellent saxophone moaning on the first two choruses, and Dicky Wells, or someone just as good, plays a few pleasant bars of trombone during the vocal. And just to make sure that "Harvard Blues" has a congenial mate, the reverse, one of those riff...
...staff of tutors as well as by the undergraduates and who is completely capable of taking over where Professor Merriman leaves off. But it will be many years before he can fill his predecessor's shoes as the star of the House Christmas play or as the chief rooter for the Elephant football team and crew...
...continued by saying that although she was an interventionist she still thought that "the very concept of war--profiting by others' troubles--is completely immoral. It's the immorality of being tickled to death seeing someone mutilated. After all in the worst Harvard-Yale fray no Harvard rooter gets up and cheers when a Yale man gets kicked in the groin. But that's exactly the attitude war breeds. I'm convinced that we in the United States have a great opportunity to take some of the stigma away from the war by doing something decent at the same time...
...Since the death of Rudyard Kipling, the British Empire has found no louder rooter than little Max Aitken, the pulse-taking Express's Canadian-born publisher. The onetime bottle-washer came out with a long personal editorial upholding among other things the aristocratic principle ("an aristocracy of political heritage under the influence of a democratic vote"). But even Publisher Max had "no interest in rescuing Poland and Czecho-Slovakia from the gutter," was for the war only because the Empire...