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...into U.S. colleges. Almost everything about S.A.S. was American, from its sentimental school song ("Fair is the name we love. . .") to its menus (Chinese dishes only twice a week). Native instructors taught Chinese, otherwise the curriculum was straight out of the Little Red Schoolhouse. On S.A.S.'s 15 willow-shaded acres, with its two gyms and the only quarter-mile track in Shanghai, American boys learned to excel at American sports...
...sunk $792,985 in the airfield, which has two swimming pools on its 180 acres. It was knocked down to the Institute for $407,000 less a "100% discount" (i.e., for nothing). The War Assets Administration has sold 60 war surplus properties this way. Samples: Willow Run Air Base to the University of Michigan, the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant in Philadelphia to Temple University...
...year old. But no cake and candles were needed to tell established automakers last week that U.S. industry's noisiest postwar baby was about ready to climb out of the crib. Even those who still scoffed at K-F's extravagant promises now looked with respect toward Willow...
...worked no miracles, it has made more progress than most critics expected. Willow Run was leased in September, but it was November when they moved in. K-F was hampered not only by the same strikes and shortages that have held the motor industry's output down to 25% of schedule, but by difficulties unique to K-F (inability to buy steel, rumors of rifts between the partners...
Hanging his hat on the weeping willow tree and brushing the lawn from his eyes the other day, Ratchford recalled the sage advice given him by the late Roger Bigelow Merriam, original Eliot House Master. "Ratchford," Merriam declared, "the way to get to be a full professor here is to stay around the College. If you're here long enough, you're bound to get an endowed chair." So Ratchford heeded the tip, and began to wait hopefully for the inevitable day. He's still bucking for section...