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...splendid achievement, said the President. But he also wanted to sound a sober note of warning. Said he: "I hope every businessman, worker, farmer and consumer will take to heart this sentence [from the report]: 'An all-out emphasis on production of finished goods and on preventing a further increase in prices is the task immediately before...
After his eldest son was killed in World War I, Lord Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth), late proprietor of the sensational London Daily Mail, endowed a chair at Oxford. Its purpose: to acquaint Britons with their recent American allies. Since 1922 such sober, unsensational U.S. historians as Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison, Princeton's Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and Columbia's Allan Nevins have occupied the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship of American History. Last week a 29-year-old, crewcut veteran of World War II sailed for England to become the new Harmsworth professor, as well as the first...
...Niagara park commission estimated the break to be 125 feet across and 30 feet deep, added that his view had been partly obscured by the mists. The reliable Associated Press released an aerial photo carefully marking the "Break of September 20, 1946." Said a Page One headline in the sober New York Times: AMERICAN FALLS NOW A HORSESHOE...
...from Under. When H. J. II was a young man, Winston Churchill once advised him: "You should begin at the top and work down." Heinz preferred the sober counsel of his grandfather: "Do a common thing uncommonly well." Working from the bottom up, he has performed uncommonly well the common task of selling common foods...
Members of the Class of 1946 are finally to get a chance to fill out the traditional Album poll and speak their minds on whether they like their instructors young or old, drunk or sober, and whether they prefer their dates to be of the free and easy type or of the bespectacled Widener variety. The Poll will be distributed today in the Registration line, and will also be mailed to absent '46ers...