Word: yaleman
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...When Yaleman Colgate kicked himself upstairs to the chairmanship two years ago, he turned the presidency over to big, hard-working Edward Herman Little. A North Carolina farmer boy, Soapman Little was doing fine as Colgate's Memphis district manager when tuberculosis sent him to Denver in 1911. Three years later he came back, cured, went to work for Caleb Johnson, rode out the mergers, took over Palmolive-Peet's foreign division and boomed it. In his two years as president he has stepped up his firm's gross profit from .3% to 10% of sales. What...
...rest will be divided among Columbia, Yale, Harvard, St. Paul's, Hampton Institute, Atlanta University, the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two New York City charities. To 78 employes who had helped him distribute his philanthropies, Edward Harkness left $1,250,000. A loyal Yaleman to the last, Mr. Harkness bequeathed $400,000 to Old Blue Malcolm Aldrich, $50,000 to another Old Blue whom he gave a job, onetime Yale Quarterback Philip W. ("Tibby") Bunnell...
...Harvard dormitories, on the day of the Harvard-Yale football game, staff members of The Yale Record, undergraduate funnypaper, planted a spurious edition of The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily. Alarmed Harvard-men read that President James Bryant Conant had resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs...
Hopefully the reporters put it all down. For days they had been following the dewy-eyed romance of George Lowther 3rd, 30, Yaleman. insurance broker, cafe socialite, and Eileen Herrick, 20, only daughter of stern Walter R. Herrick, onetime Park Commissioner of New York City. George wanted to marry Eileen. The Herricks did not want Eileen to marry George. Eileen could not be reached to find out what she wanted. So, George, claiming that the Herricks were holding Eileen a prisoner against her will, got from Justice Wasservogel a writ of habeas corpus demanding that the father produce the girl...
Blond, clean-cut young Yaleman Eugene Kingman, Philbrook's director, plans to encourage local art and architecture, Indian art. Conspicuous in the opening-night crowd were the feathers and buck-kin pants of Acee Blue Eagle, whose Buffalo Hunt was also on display. Absent were Negroes. One Thursday a month will be et aside as Jim Crow day at Philbrook...