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...Straus Trophy totals printed in Friday's CRIMSON failed to include one category--points deducted for failure to field a team. The official standings at the present time, in corrected form, are: 1. Dunster 360; 2. Eliot 30; 3. Leverett 272.5; 4. Adams 270; 5. Lowell 267.5; 6. Kirkland 265; 7. Winthroop 235; 8. Dudley...
With the fall sports schedule completed, Dunster House holds an early lead in the race for the Straus Trophy...
Lowell, which finished seventh in the race last year, is in a surprising tie for third with Leverett House. The Bellboy soccer team picked up 150 points by copping the soccer league championship. STRAUS TROPHY POINTS Football Touch Soccer Cross Country Total Dunster 110 (4) 115 (1) 100 (2) 35 (2) 360 Eliot 150 (1) 60 (6) 60 (6) 40 (1) 310 Leverett 135 (2) 52.5 (7*) 85 (3) 5 (8) 277.5 Lowell 95 (5*) 52.5 (7*) 115 (1) 15 (6) 277.5 Adams 120 (3) 65 (5) 65 (5) 20 (5) 270 Dudley...
...from the floor: "Thank you, Mr. Montgomery. I see you still have the gift of gab." Then, Lewis D. Gilbert, who owns stock in 600-odd corporations, including twelve shares in Macy's, and makes an avocation of harassing corporate boards, threw a question at President Jack I. Straus: "What does Mr. Montgomery know about merchandising?" Straus tried to defend Montgomery's qualifications as a director. After all, he said, several of the other directors had not known much about retailing when they had joined the board. Snorted Gilbert: "Maybe that's what's wrong with...
Galled by a cutback in their dividends from 50? to 40? a share, the stockholders turned on Straus. Macy's sales had slipped 5-5% in the year just ended; earnings had tumbled from $2.51 a share to only 98?. Except for the $2,800,000 realized on the sale of station WOR, Macy's profits would have hit their lowest point since 1942. Jack Straus said that Macy's showing was caused by unusual circumstances: 1) losses during the Macy-Gimbels price war last year, 2) the high cost of installing TV sets...