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After coming to Harvard and receiving his degree in 1925, he traveled in Europe for a year under a Sheldon Fellowship. "The fellowship was for traveling or study," he relates, "and I traveled." His grand tour took him to most of the capitals of Europe, although he spent most of his time in what was then the cultural center of the continent and the world: Berlin. "The beer was good there, too," he reminisces, "and plentiful...
Following Professor Lamb's retirement a board of three Directors will take charge of the laboratories. The board will comprise Louis F. Fiesor, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, E. Bright Wilson, Jr., associate professor of Chemistry, and James J. Lingane, assistant professor of chemistry...
Interviewers who tried to pin down Sheldon Sackett found him as jumpy as a flea circus, and as vague as a summer breeze. He likes crimson shirts and flossy hotel suites, which he roams with Groucho Marxian energy, gulping strategically placed drinks of Scotch, nibbling toast, bawling into telephones, thrusting laploads of handouts on his visitors. The handouts range from his financial statements (sound enough) to his theories about what ails the U.S. press (mostly sound effects...
...past five years a dozen Seattle businessmen, most of whom knew nothing about newspapering, had owned the Star. Last week they sold out (for a profitable $400,000) to a flashily rising press lord the Pacific Northwest was suddenly hearing about. In less than a month Sheldon F. (for Fred) Sackett, 44, had bought the Vancouver (Wash.) Sun, acquired a weekly (he rechristened it the Sun, too) across the Columbia River at Portland, Ore., and snatched, for a small down payment, a million-dollar Portland printing plant. He had served notice on Portland's venerable Oregonian and the Oregon...
...Sheldon Grade School, where she has the third grade, Miss Lizzie found teachers and pupils waiting to place a golden crown on her head and install her on a "throne"-a school desk covered with yellow crepe paper. It was a school holiday-but the 230 kids all showed up anyway. All morning the townsfolk poured into the red schoolhouse to shake hands with Miss Lizzie, who has taught 1,294 boys & girls in her day-more than Sheldon's present population...