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...Wickman bought a small line operating out of Superior, Wis., owned by a young man named Orville Swan Caesar. The line was unimportant, but Caesar, a onetime mechanic's helper who liked to tinker, was not. Within a year he and Wickman were running Greyhound together and had laid the foundations of the present Greyhound Corporation. They kept on buying up other lines out of profits, kept their former owners to run them. When their cash dwindled, a Minneapolis banker, Glenn Wood Traer, joined forces with them. He persuaded railroads to hedge their own futures by investing...
...Chestnut Tree the deadening routine of a London business office is shattered when two women are added to the all-male staff: "Miss Browne the elder, whom we had seen, was like a swan and thought so herself. Her fair hair, she conveyed to you, was her glory. She was curving and sedate. With the sleepy smile of one lying on a feather bed in Paradise, with tiny grey eyes behind the pince-nez which sat on her nose, with the swell of long low breasts balanced by the swell of her dawdling rump, she moved swanlike to her desk...
...expression of support came after a delegation of about 15 members, headed by Thaxter Swan '45, appeared at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the City Hall rooms of the Civic Unity Committee and outlined the action taken to date on the Club 100 case. The statement described the incident, the institution, of the boycott, and the eventual beginning, last week, of the picket lines...
...Swan also disclosed that the meeting will consider measures to implement the "growing drive" against the Club beyond those already discussed. He declined to specify "other methods...
With the College-wide boycott now in effect five days, Swan stated that the embargo has been a definite success insofar as the members of the University are concerned. "However, an attempt will have to be made to reach the Cambridge citizenry outside of the College," he said. Since last Thursday, when the boycott was announced, the patronage of the Club 100 has been comprised almost entirely of this extra-university group...