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Surprised and pleased last week was SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas by a sudden rush of utility holding companies to register with the commission. Though the constitutionality of the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act is still undecided by the Supreme Court, fortnight ago the $570,000,000 United Light & Power Co. voluntarily registered under the act. Last week two more utility holding companies knocked at SEC's door -Engineers Public Service Co., which registered all $369,000,000 of its assets, and Cities Service Co., which asked for exemption for itself but registered the $428,000,000 assets...
...Many years ago F. Wallis Armstrong gave financial assistance to struggling John T. Dorrance. When John Dorrance formed Campbell Soup Co., the advertising agency of F. Wallis Armstrong Co. never had to worry about losing that fat account, though it did lose Philco Radio and Victor Talking Machine. Grown rich and weary, Mr. Armstrong last week sold out to Louis Ward Wheelock Jr., his easygoing, active, second-in-command, with two momentous results: The agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices...
What makes an adventurer? Though hundreds of adventurers have lived to tell the tale, few have attempted an answer to the question. In Danger Is My Business, Captain John D. Craig, Hollywood's best-known deep-sea photographer, who will photograph the salvage work on the Lusitania this summer, starts his autobiography by pondering himself and his kind. An adventurer's courage, says Craig, "is simply something that keeps logic from working ... it is something-like blue eyes or red hair or six fingers-which some men have and others do not. . . ." Despite this analytical beginning, Danger...
...concentration, many will be influenced in their choice by the fact that English concentrators must have passed C.P.3 in Latin or Greek or the equivalent in order to go out for honors. The intention of the Department is apparently to encourage high-school boys to acquire a classical foundation, though it is certain that few have ever heard of such a requirement till their Freshman year. Actually the Department discourages some Freshmen from deciding to concentrate in English; others, finding themselves handicapped, are content to run along smoothly on a 'C' level and lose all the advantages of tutorial...
Ample consolation for Stepp this year, though, was the unofficial time for Princeton's disqualified 300-yard medley relay team. 2:53.5 was the clocking, a world's record, invalid because Al Van de Weghe, Tiger backstroker, failed to touch the wall with his hand as he negotiated a somersault turn in the first leg. The Nassan mermen were rather bitter about the ruling, for Van de Weghe, is notorious for touching as much as two feet below the surface, a practice which makes it very difficult for the judge on turns to see what's going...