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Actually, the only protest came from Dartmouth. The Daily Dartmouth ran an editorial protesting Big Three Snobbery, terming baseball "a game that little boys can play," and calling for President John Sloan Dickey to resign from the Ivy League because of its high pressure athletic policies. The Indians' Green Key joined in, blasting the weekend as organized mid-Western "rah-rah collegiatism...
...letter, Sears also referred at length to last week's statement by the Association of American Universities and also to an address last month of John Sloan Dickey, President of Dartmouth...
Testifying at the Du Pont antitrust trial in Chicago last week, General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. explained why Charles F. Kettering, the company's famed research wizard, never made the top policy committee. Sloan said that in 1943 he had proposed that the committee admit "Boss Ket," who invented the self-starter and helped in the development of many another product (e.g., the high-compression motor, leaded gasoline). But when Du Pont Chairman Lammot du Pont objected, Sloan felt that his reasons were valid. "We agreed," said Sloan, "that if [Ket] came on the committee, he would...
...Mexico. As such, he will keep his U.S. citizenship. His new job: partner in a local law firm in the capacity of "legal advisor," since only Mexican citizens may actually practice law. Meanwhile, ecclesiastical law was moving toward a decision on O'Dwyer's separation from Sloan Simpson. The archbishop of Mexico announced that steps were being taken to have the marriage annulled...
...corporations give their share to U.S. higher education, announced that a new Council for Financial Aid to Education had been formed to do some persuading. The council, he thought, would get a good reception from business. Its members: former Chairman Irving Olds of U.S. Steel, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Chairman Walter Paepcke of the Container Corp., Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Frank Abrams...