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...million in McGraw-Hill stock, which sold last week at 49½ a share. McGraw-Hill plans no major changes in S. & P.'s operations. "You don't take a sound, successful business like Standard & Poor's and tamper with it," says Executive Vice President Robert Slaughter. As an institution in the financial world, S. & P. will retain its own offices in Wall Street, continue to issue its financial reports under its own name...
...only important enemy. Passenger pigeons were good to eat, fun for sport shooting, and almost entirely salable: their dried gizzards were thought to cure gallstones; their powdered stomachs were a nostrum for dysentery; and their feathers were in great demand for use as ticking. During the 1870s, when the slaughter reached its peak, hard-working hunters could net 15,000 birds in a single day-at a market value of $1,250. News of a nesting was spread by telegraph; hunters came from miles around, and the pigeons were trapped, bludgeoned or shot (a single shotgun blast once brought down...
...only the recent tradition of close Harvard-Columbia games which suggests that today's contest will be anything but a one-sided slaughter. Columbia has possibly the worst team in the Ivy League; they lost ther season opener to Lafayete, 14 to 10--and that was Lafayette's first victory in 15 games. Last week they were smeared by powerful Princeton...
Everyone expects this game to be a complete slaughter. Dartmouth has racked up 83 points in its first two game rushing defense. And Penn, after all, is Penn...
Chip Ennis and Jim Wich, second and third behind Kinsella in last week's slaughter of Yale, appear to be the best of the lot. Harvard's Bob Stempson and Joe Ryan may pair up with these two, and, if they do, it will be an exciting duel...