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Frye and Hughes collided head-on over finances. T.W.A., its till drained by overseas expansion and a 25-day pilot strike, needed cash in a hurry, up to $100 million (TIME, Dec. 9). To get part of it, President Frye consequently proposed that T.W.A. issue another two million shares of stock...
...till 1939 did the New York Curb Exchange hire its first paid president. Three years later, trading had fallen into such doldrums (average daily volume: 79,400 shares) that it could no longer afford this luxury. But business has improved so much since then (daily volume is up to 516,700 shares) that Curb members decided last week to try again. Their choice (at $40,000 a year) : Francis Adams Truslow,* one of Wall Street's most knowing securities lawyers and the Curb's own counsel since...
...takes his cloak and we walked together down till we came pretty near home, when I saw my mother in the street with another woman. . . . My mother, spying of us, says to the other woman, 'Here come Master Debase with a Fleming. It may be they may bring some news of Ned, she little knowing I was he. The old man bid me say nothing, he being pleased at the conceit [joke]. When we came to my mother, she looked on me, but knew me not, but asked the old man if he could tell no news...
...Patterson McCormick papers might well point to Associate Professor John W. Fairbank of the History Department, as an example of American Youth subverted by these foreign scholarships. For tall, thoughtful Professor Fairbank, after the good start of being born in South Dakota in 1907, led a clean-cut life till his second year at Wisconsin University. At this point he got mixed up with Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the question of China's destiny. So that today, or on October 7, 1946, we find him asserting in a "Times" book review, "When we fail to bargain with Chiang...
Christmas will not really arrive for the undergraduate till the day he packs his bag, waits for the wayward cognoscenti to sign out on the trusty sheets at University Hall, and finally sets out on the Yuletide holiday...