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Died. Alfred E. Lyon, 81, longtime head of Philip Morris, Inc. as president (1945-49) and board chairman (1949-57); of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. An ebullient Britisher, Lyon arrived in the U.S. in 1912 and swiftly showed his Yank cousins what the word salesman meant, getting dealers to push Philip Morris by helping dust their shelves, paying college students to pass out free smokes to friends, sweet-talking nightclub ciggie girls into handing customers only Philip Morris when they'd ordered another brand; by 1933, he was the company's vice president for sales and there created...
...went at it another way-like a wild man on the mound scaring batters half to death. In the first inning he walked one man; in the second he walked another; in the third he hit a batter. By the fifth inning, Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer was ready to yank him for a reliever. But the Tigers were so busy ducking that no one had even got a hit. On into the ninth it went, with the Orioles leading 1-0 and nothing but goose eggs for the Tigers. By now Steve had seven walks and two hit batsmen. Three...
...Yank Heisler had the closest match at number one, Winning 3 holes up and 2 to play. Jack Purdy triumphed 5 and 4, and Chris Curry...
Most of the groups joined the coalition with misgivings. The National Council of Students for a Democratic Society refused to endorse the march at the December meeting and finally came around just two weeks before the demonstration. Ronald Yank, a Harvard Law student and SDS co-chairman, commented on the hesitancy. He said many SDS people were turned off by King's position on the war, "which ignores the fact of U.S. imperialism." He said King was primarily concerned because the poverty program was suffering from the war, and Yank thought that was a pretty superficial basis for opposition. "They...
...candidates but Wagler were disqualified, and three SDS members -- Ronald E. Yank 3L, John M. Mendelhoff '68 and Laurence E. Fogarty '68-2 -- were elected co-chairmen...