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David P. Bryden '57 of Lowell House and Morristown, N.J., and Robert W. Scrivner '57, of Kirkand House and Topeka, Kan., won the $200 Coolidge Prize last night in their practice debate for the Harvard - Yale - Princeton Triangulars which begin today...
Grants for graduate study abroad have been awarded to Robert W. Scrivner '57 of Kirkland House and Topeka, Kan., Stephen A. Aaron '57 of Lowell House and New York City, Eric W. Kurtz '57 of Adams House and Oberlin, Ohio; and Peter N. Stearns '57 of Eliot House and Urbana...
Mashed Finger. "When I was four," Reporter McCluggage says, "I asked Santa Claus for a doll on roller skates and an Austin." Growing up in Topeka, Kans., she was a determined tomboy, mashed the end of a finger playing softball, and was easily "the best blocking back on the block." At Mills College near San Francisco she won a Phi Beta Kappa key as a philosophy major, and after graduating in 1947 decided to become a reporter. She haunted the San Francisco Chronicle city room for six months before penetrating the conventional misogyny of the craft and persuading the weekly...
...Kansas, a dizzy seesaw battle came to a Democratic victory for Lawrence Banker George Docking, 52, over Topeka Republican Warren W. Shaw, 48, who failed to overcome two severe handicaps: 1) G.O.P. factionalism, and 2) charges that, as Shawnee County chairman, he had received kickbacks on gasoline sales to the state...
...patience at an end, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. marched into a Topeka, Kans. courtroom last week and got a temporary injunction to stop an old trick that was costing it money. The trick is the uncompleted long-distance call, by which subscribers get their message across via a prearranged code and hang up without paying a dime. Like Illinois Bell Telephone Co., which estimated its losses at $400,000 annually (TIME, April 16), Southwestern Bell was losing heavily...