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HAROLD W. TRIBBLE Wake Forest College Winston-Salem...
Died. Richard Joshua Reynolds, 58, playboy heir to a king-size slice of his father's tobacco empire (Camel, Winston, Salem), who scorned the family trade to become a taxi driver, deck hand, aviator, ship owner, horse breeder and sometime Democratic politician, managing meanwhile to run through $10 million of his $25 million inheritance settling three marriages; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36 hours before his fourth wife gave birth to a daughter...
Paul Padlack, a member of the Harvard freshman wrestling team, won the 155 pound division in the Lawrence Open Tournament at Lawrence, Mass., Saturday. Padlack won five matches on the way to his victory, including a pair of pins and decisions over two former New England champions, Norm Salem by a 1-0 score and John Sullivan...
Though the convention rules Wake Forest, it contributes only 5% of the liberal arts school's $5,500,000 operating budget; most of the rest comes from tuition and the tobacco-rich Reynolds Foundation, which in 1946 gave the college free land for its new campus near Winston-Salem. Hinting that Wake Forest might break its ties to the Baptists, Tribble warned that "one way or another we shall move into the future." As students strolled through the campus last week, they wore hand-lettered tags that read I CAN'T WAIT TO DISAFFILIATE...
...latest earnings reports are as golden as well-cured burley. American Tobacco, P. Lorillard and Philip Morris broke third-quarter records, and Liggett & Myers is running 27% ahead of last year. The only down note came from the industry leader, R. J. Reynolds (maker of Camel, Winston, Salem), whose profits fell from $35 million to $31 million...