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President W. K. Jordan accepted the gift for the college from Mrs. Horace W. Frost, president of the Association. He told the alumnae, and their guests, the Class of 1949, that the sum had been raised "without the aid and stimulus of any large gift...
...After experimenting extensively with dogs (whose alcoholic capacity, pound for pound, is about the same as humans'), Dr. Henry W. Newman of Stanford University's medical school concluded that a man can handle a quart of whisky...
Although crusty old (67) Martin W. Clement passed the voluntary retirement age two years ago, he stayed right on as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. To some oldtime Pennsy men, it seemed that the road could never operate without his tight rule. But this week he is relaxing his hold. He will retire as president to become the first chairman of the board in the Pennsy's 103-year history...
...group to appear among the big names were automobile dealers; at least ten appeared with incomes above $75,000. Springfield, Ill.'s Chevrolet Dealer E. W. Bates ($192,784) earned more than General Motors President Charles E. Wilson ($166,100) and almost as much as Ford Motor Co.'s President Henry Ford II ($200,000). Actually, the list was not a true measure of those with the biggest incomes-as usual, no dividends, royalties or capital gains were included...
...article printed above does not now, and never has, represented the opinion of Donald Carswell, Peter B. Taub, Charles W. Bailey, William S. Fairfield, Bayard Hooper, or any of the CRIMSON's regular sports writers. They left town for the summer two days...