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...clothes, Boston's tailors voted him the city's best-dressed man. He prowled about expanding Harvard as if it was his own back yard, leaping into sewer ditches to discover fragments of antique Harvard chinaware, laying out new Yard walks with a bundle of stakes and twine. He inherited a large fortune and fattened it judiciously (except when he lost $194,412 in Kreuger & Toll). He endowed (with some $1,000,000) the Harvard Society of Fellows-a group of 24 brilliant young men who are lodged in the "Houses" and paid...
...hemp were grown in Kentucky and harvested for seed last year. For processing the hemp into badly needed ships' rope the Department of Agriculture is financing the construction of 71 midwest factories. Hemp was a big U.S. staple even before the Revolution, was used for homespun garments, twine, sacking, rigging, cables, hangmen's nooses. But foreign competition half century ago killed U.S. hemp production. Now Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard has listed it as a vital war crop...
...days dragged by, monotonous and deadly, rain came and brought drinking water-and raised mold on the hardtack. Benton wove a net of twine. The three men trolled with it, caught fish, which they ate raw. The fish guts they threw into the water lured hungry sharks which, Wajda said, "slapped the raft with their tails and we were afraid it would overturn." Benton began to grow weak. "On the 24th day he died and we put him overboard, mumbling what prayers we could remember. . . . Then Bancroft started to go out of his mind. ... He tried to jump. . . . I grabbed...
...running down to Washington to make sure the Post Office had no objections. "I am a great believer in our Government," he says, "and I certainly did not want to do anything against the law." Kaufman did all the mailing himself, lugged bundles, licked labels, cut his hands with twine...
Apthorp dented the twine in 9.41 of the second half and Tilghman salted the game away with a 15-footer from a sharp right angle. Winthrop, with 13 points out of a possible 14, thus earned the right to meet Timothy Dwight this Friday at New Haven...