Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William J. Bingham '16, H.A.A. Director, announced late last week the appointment by the Corporation of William O. Fisher '44, Thorvald S. Ross, Jr., NROTC, and David B. Wilson '48 as undergraduate representatives on the Athletic Committee, known technically as the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Activities...
...President. For its new president, the 133-man N.A.M. board chose an example of what free enterprise has meant in America's past: Robert Ross Wason (rhymes with ah son), 57, president of Manhattan's Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc. (cranes, hoists, safety valves, etc.). Born a poor boy in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wason got his first job at eleven, worked his way through high school as a janitor. After graduation he worked as a longshoreman, blacksmith's helper and dock hand, and cub reporter on the Ashtabula Independent at $15 a week...
...nearly two years the small (circ. 230,000) city -slicker New Yorker and the mighty, midget-sized Reader's Digest (circ. 11,000,000) have been on the outs. In a frigidly phrased communiqué to his contributors in February 1944, wire-haired Harold W. Ross, terrier-tempered editor of the New Yorker, served notice that his magazine was through being Digested...
...thing that had made irritable Editor Ross blow his top was the discovery that the Digest was no longer a digest, that many of its articles were home-grown in its own commodious nursery at Pleasantville, N.Y. and "planted" in other publications- for eventual transplanting back to the Digest. Said Ross: "This gives us the creeps...
...owner, had already run to three dart-throwing installments and 14,000 words. How much more was to come was an office secret, but John Bainbridge, the 32-year-old author, said there was only a thin chance that it would break the six-installment record devoted to another Ross anathema, Walter Winchell...