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When he got out of the Army in 1946, Seymour Waldman, 25, had no particular relish for his old job as a letter writer in a Chicago mail-order house. Instead, he "studied up on steel," and with $5,000 saved and borrowed, set up the Emergency Steel Service Corp., a company dedicated to "easing the troubles of businessmen with no established sources of steel supply." In short, he became a grey-marketeer in steel. This year alone, Waldman, whose only sales instrument is the telephone, took in $7,000,000, expects to end 1951 with a profit...
Forman sold the steel to Cleveland's Martin J. Kutz, who passed it on at twice the mill price to Broker Jay Friedman. The anchor man on the daisy chain was Seymour Waldman, though he managed to get hold of only about half the steel. He sold it to the Daisy Manufacturing Co. of Plymouth, Mich, (air rifles, BB shot, toys) for $12.01. Waldman's price included a freight charge from La Crosse, Wis. (on which there is a 3% federal tax), even though during all six transactions the steel had never moved from Steubenville...
Halfback Chuck Seymour starred in Branford's late surge, scoring touchdowns on runs of six and 26 yards and passing 20 yards for another. Linebacker Larry Alpert was brilliant for the Deacons in the first half, leading two successful goal-line stands...
Professor Seymour Harris writes about the financial plight of universities, pointing out the ways in which income has fallen and costs have risen. Two contributors discuss student withdrawal from politics and threats to academic freedom respectively. Both articles contain interesting information, but are not too sharp on analysis. Professor William T. LaPrade's article on hysteria--the political, not the psychological, kind--reiterates the stand of the American Association of University Professors on the right to teach, but does not contain much new material...
...Tory government faces new crises in 1951-52, and will have to demand sacrifices by its people despite rising output, Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, predicted yesterday. However, he believes that the British will probably get money more easily from Washington with Churchill now doing the asking...