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...stockholders blocked approval. Still undaunted, Banker McGregor dug in again and waited. By this time, because of his insistent demands for 100? on the dollar, the dogged banker had earned the title "Par" McGregor. Last week it was apparent that the stockholders' mulishness had saved, ironically enough, every stitch of the bondseller's shirts...
...such intangible but potentially powerful ideas that the value of sending students abroad must be discovered. Here one finds intimately connected education, peace, and all the other worth-while ideals of mankind. As a stitch in the vast fabric of human events, these student ambassadors, quantitatively considered, represent little. But when many such stitches are woven together in a thread, the direction of events may be changed...
...college at the Canford School in England, has been outstanding in track for the past two and one half years. This fall he has been a strong man on the team, running Playfair many close races. In the H.Y.P. meet he finished third, in spite of a bad stitch in the last few miles...
Hayden Channing is another HYP veteran, placing fourth last year. Prior to this fall, Hayden almost always developed a stitch during the final mile of a race due to a torn muscle suffered while running during his public school days in England. So far this season, however, he has been able to complete the course without undue abdominal discomfort. Also subject to stitches is Axel Northrop, captain of last year's Freshmen. Developing one early in the Holy Cross meet, it forced him far down in the finishing order. Should he out-grow this affliction, as apparently did Hayden, however...
Driving alone in Los Angeles Newlywed Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, 71, swerved to avoid another car, crashed into a telephone pole. His injuries: fractured wrist, bruised chest, six-stitch nose gash...