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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Showdown. Able, amiable Bill Norton was born and raised in Hampton, N.H., and prepped at Exeter. He left Harvard during his freshman year to support himself and three younger brothers after the death of their parents. Starting in Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., he worked his way up in various stores (e.g., W. T. Grant Co. and Filene's in Boston), until he joined Ward...
Calhoun points out that, without exception, his fellow pony-pushers have had previous experience on the polo fields. Besides his own Manila participation, which was shared in a lesser degree by his younger brother Tom, team members have played in the Argentine and on squads in New York, Cleveland, and Arizona...
...study found that among upperclassmen medicine, law, and teaching are the most frequently chosen occupations in the professional field. Most seniors have their eyes fixed on a career in business or education, but the Placement Office called the interest shown in scientific research among younger men "significant...
Whatever adults-and sponsors-may think of such carryings-on, Hawthorne and his peculiar banana-split lingo have become the rage of Southern California's younger set. Most popular root word is "hogan" (example: "I was driving my carahogan in from Pasadena-hogan so I could get a hoganburger"). The young folks also overwork Hawthorne's favorite adjectives: keen, peachy-keen, and oh-so-peachy-keen...
...Rocky Mountain area got a big new bank last week to finance its burgeoning industries. At the helm was an old name in banking-George Eccles, younger brother of the Federal Reserve Board's Marriner Eccles. To set up the biggest banking operation between Omaha and California, the Eccles-owned First Security Bank of Utah and the First Security Trust Co. were merged with the First National Bank of Salt Lake City. The new institution, called the First Security Bank of Utah, National Association, has resources of well over $300 million, and more than 40 offices (including affiliated Eccles...