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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John W. Teele 27, director of the Placement Office, emphasized in his statement yesterday that vocational choices could be as wide as desired, although limited choices increase the chances of a good job in that field. Men who are leaving this month should be sure to leave a full statement of experience and plans, together with a forwarding address at the office, so that prospective employers may get in touch with them...
...Hubbell, 43, the great "clutch" pitcher (he always won in a pinch). Lean and emotionless, he seldom used more stuff than he needed to get his man, seldom tried for strike-out records. In 16 seasons with the New York Giants, he won 253 games. His World Series record: W. 4, L. 2. His present job: director of the Giants' farm system...
...then he got interested in Alleghany. Young needed more cash than he wanted to risk himself, so he wrote a letter to an associate, Allan P. Kirby, the shy heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune made by his father in the F. W. Woolworth Co. Young told Kirby that he had a good proposition lined up, and Kirby came through with $3,000,000. The obliging Mr. Kirby, now president of Alleghany Corp., has been the financial angel in many of Young's deals ever since. It is actually Kirby's holdings, some 550,000 shares of Alleghany...
...Another Blackford Civil War volume appeared in 1945: War Years with Jeb Stuart, by Lieut. Colonel W. W. Blackford, brother of Captain Charles...
FRENCH PERSONALITIES AND PROBLEMS (241 pp.)-D. W.-Brogan-Knopf...