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Bryn Mawr's smartest junior got her picture taken at the May Day hoop-rolling festival (see cut). She is 5 ft. tall, weighs 98 lb., has been in the U. S. since 1930. Her name is Vung-Yuin Ting. This year she won the Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial scholarship for the junior class's best scholastic record, the Charles S. Hinchman Memorial scholarship for being best of any Bryn Mawr girl in her major subject. Bryn Mawr's only Chinese student, Vung-Yuin Ting majors in chemistry, is one of the campus' friendliest...
...certificates like the foregoing are appended to the financial reports of almost every big U. S. corporation. Contrary to popular belief, accounting is not an exact science. Charges, reserves, write-offs, appraisals, etc. are matters of opinion. Though profits or losses are calculated to the last digit, even the smartest auditor cannot predict the precise day when a lathe will cease to turn or a truck wear out. Best he can do is to estimate, with the management's help, the probable life of plant & property, set aside an approximate sum for depreciation. Having done this...
...brother Rodolfo as Secretary of Labor and persuaded Secretary-Without-Portfolio Carlos Saladrigas, who had also sent in his resignation, to take the dead Penate's job. Then he called his cabinet into two all-day sessions from which he emerged, pale but triumphant, with three of the smartest moves his government has made thus...
...Hurlaux who struck an attitude and attempted to swallow poison. He was rushed to a hospital where he signed a statement swearing that he had never accepted a single sou from handsome Alex. Lawyers for Stavisky's principal agent, Secretary Gilbert Romanigno, are Raymond Hubert, one of the smartest pleaders in Paris, and a M. Pinganaud. Paris papers have hinted for weeks that both know more about the case than anyone in the city. Early in the week police searched Lawyer Pinganaud's apartment, found nothing to incriminate him personally, but did uncover a jolly photograph which showed...
...Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...