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...advantages of a Phi Beta Kappa key [Dec. 28] is its pawn value. In 1935 I hocked mine (Hamilton College, 1930) for $5 to help pay for food and fuel. Thomas C. Grubb Mount Vernon, Ohio...
Elgar: Symphony No. 2 (Classics for Pleasure). The noble E-flat symphony gets a refined reading from Vernon Handley and the London Philharmonic...
Lillian Menasche Katz, 54, started the $42 million Lillian Vernon Corp. in the back of her former husband's dress shop in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with an initial investment of $2,000. Her current offerings are utilitarian (a wall-mounted kitchen scale), frivolous (an initialed toothpaste tube squeezer) or elegant (a nickel-plated travel shaving brush...
...Donald W. Davis, Chairman, Stanley Works; Edwin D. Dodd, Chairman, Owens-Illinois Inc.; Myron DuBain, Chairman, Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies; Alexander Heard, Chancellor, Vanderbilt University; Henry J. Heinz II, Chairman, H.J. Heinz Co.; Matina S. Horner, President, Radcliffe College; T. Lawrence Jones, President, American Insurance Association; Vernon E. Jordan Jr., President, National Urban League Inc.; Robert E. Kirby, Chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corp.; William E. LaMothe, Chairman, Kellogg Co.; Sol M. Linowitz, Senior Partner, Coudert Bros.; William S. Litwin, President, Kero-Sun Inc.; Stewart G. Long, Vice President, Trans World Airlines Inc.; Henry Luce III, President, Henry Luce Foundation...
...richest stash of evidence was found at an apartment building in Mount Vernon, N.Y., where police had spotted one of the getaway cars used in the Brink's job, a tan Ford. Inside the building, investigators found bloodstained clothing, incriminating fingerprints and a very observant superintendent named Dennis Vasquez. Vasquez told police and federal agents that just hours before their arrival, he had seen five people load the contents of an apartment into a tan van and other vehicles. From photographs, he and his wife identified the five: Cynthia Priscilla Boston, 33, and her common-law husband, William Johnson...