Word: simpson
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...Gross, 66, a carpenter's son whose freewheeling presidency of Kentucky's Union College is a Methodist legend. Gross saved the penniless campus by using his spending power as county relief boss in the Depression ("We built a lot of sidewalks"). Later he remodeled Iowa's Simpson College, in 1941 became head of all church-college relations...
...stockholders of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, President Howard E. Simpson last week sent an unusual letter. It urged shareholders to agree to a merger with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, even though Simpson has stoutly supported a merger with C. & O.'s rival, the New York Central. The merger would be the biggest in railroad history, make the new road the nation's second largest, after the Pennsylvania...
...Simpson could do little else. The rich and well-run C. & O., controlled by Chairman Cyrus Eaton, Khrushchev's favorite capitalist, made the offer to exchange stock so attractive that a majority (55%) of B. & O. stockholders have already agreed to swap their stock for C. & O. shares. If the merger is approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, C. & O. President Walter Tuohy will consider another merger with the Central...
Virginia's lively Hollins College boasts one of the country's key teaching machine projects (and a rare statistics major for women). At Iowa's Easterner-beckoning Simpson College, all students take in a new "Vital Center" curriculum designed to ask questions and pose answers about Western and Oriental civilization. Ohio's strong little Hiram College, which sends 80% of its students to graduate schools, gives a student only three courses at a time, to encourage more intensive study. At Florida's Stetson University near Daytona Beach, where students can get learned and burned...
...Stringham, a once-brilliant fellow and his close friend at school, is now under virtual house arrest as an alcoholic by his sister's former governess. Widmer-pool, a great comic creation who represents Business in Powell's mind, has soared to the skirts of Mrs. Simpson's "set." The Tolland family, whose head is Lord Warminster, illustrates the vast confusion of the British ruling class at the time. ("I haven't been in Spain for years," says Lady Warminster. "I liked the women better than the men. Of course they all have, English nannies.") Depression...