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Following the annual December meeting of the American Economic Association in New York, the economist had gone to his Taconic home to rest before delivering the annual Walgreen Lectures at the University of Chicago...
...Chicago, Yale is a boy's finishing school." Asked what he thought of Chicago, he said: "The faculty does not amount to much, but the president and the students are wonderful." When he prepared to testify before a committee of the Illinois legislature (after Drugstore Tycoon Charles Walgreen had charged that his niece was being taught Communism at the university), Trustee Laird Bell offered to pay Hutchins $25 for every wisecrack he didn't make...
...Tiger's Eye, going into its third issue with a press run of 5,000, was the expensively printed quarterly of Artist John Stephan and his wife, Poet Ruth Walgreen Stephan. Because she thinks it a shame that poets get such paltry pay, Mrs. Stephan, daughter of the late Drug Magnate Charles R. Walgreen, pays a princely $2 a line for poetry...
...with Walgreen's. A chain of such stores has been the dream of United's energetic, athletic president, Justin Whitlock Dart, 38, ever since he was started in the drug business by Charles R. Walgreen Sr., then his father-in-law. He soon proved that his job did not depend on nepotism. Over the objections of fellow executives, he busily rearranged the interiors of Walgreen drugstores, showed that it was just as important to put an article in the right place in a store as to put the right things in the manufacture of the article. Sample change...
...customers hoped that Sanborn's would not become just another Walgreen's store. Anyway, as a historic monument, nothing in the Casa can be changed without Government permission. Sanborn even had to get an okay to hang pictures. Said Walgreen's vice president and treasurer Robert G. Knight: "Sanborn's is unique and we'll keep it that...