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Undergraduates who have been chosen as result of the recent trials include: Lynn Beals '32, W.H. Melish '31, Richard Breithut '31, Marshall Smith '32, Buford Junker '33, J.H. Tucci '33, W.H. Lehr '34, J.D. Vail '32, L.L. Filstrip 2E.S., H.A. Stone '33, and O.Z. Whitehead '34. Of this number, Melish, Smith and Junker have played prominent roles in previous Dramatic Club productions...
...weeks before the Christmas holidays, but the league victors have just been determined. In the Alpha group there was a double tie for the top position, while in the Beta league three teams claimed the championship: the Kappa Sigmas won the play-off on the pitching of J. D. Vail Jr. '32, their star hurler, who is expected to be on the mound tonight if he recovers from a slight illness...
...Hill. The hill referred to is that from which San Francisco's substantial families survey the Golden Gate. On its upper slopes a social scion (Lester Vail) becomes engaged to a cinemactress (Katherine Wilson) who, unknown to him, has climbed the hill from a bordello. Seven years have done much to make her forget that dark vale, but when she meets the most aggressive of her former swains, he nearly sends her hurtling down again. Failing that, he forces her to tell her history to her fiance. You are very much afraid that the pleasant fellow will overlook...
...management to them. In his choice of heirs he showed a marked predilection for executives who had trained under the brothers John F. & Horace E. Dodge. They are: for president, Frederick J. Haynes, onetime president of Dodge Bros.; for vice president in charge of production and engineering, Ralph A. Vail, onetime engineer in charge of Dodge production; for secretary-treasurer, John A. Nichols, onetime vice president in charge of Dodge sales; for general sales manager. R. G. Hodgkins, onetime Studebaker sales manager. Official announcement of the new officers came from George Harrison Phelps Inc., onetime advertising agency for Dodge Bros...
...Western Electric Co. at $10 weekly. It is said that he had intended to send the letter of application which got him the job to the General Electric Co., confused the two Electrics, thus accidentally landed with the Western. His work attracted the attention of Theodore N. Vail, who made him chief statistician. By 1915 he was Vice President; in 1917, as head of the Council of National Defense, he directed the purchase of supplies for the American Expeditionary Forces in France; in 1918 he returned to the A. T. & T.; in 1925 was made A. T. & T. president. Among...