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...Coach Bill McCurdy's Crimson, the finishers were: Al Wills, 37th; Paul Beck, 101st; Don French, 107th; Bill Morris, 112th; Bob Holmes, 113th; and Dick Wharton, 143rd...
...rhymes with goad us), 52, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Eighth Army, once rated one of the Army's top horsemen. After graduating from West Point (1920), he switched from the cavalry to the infantry. A tough, rangy, veteran line commander, he headed the 28th Division's 112th Infantry Combat team in World War II, was wounded in France, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action. Married, has two daughters, and a son at West Point...
...Scientists attending the 112th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science failed to agree on the validity of the Wegener theory that the earth's continents were once...
...Birmingham, England, scientists attending the 112th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, spent three hours heatedly debating the Wegener theory of continental drift.* Finally they put the question to a vote. The result, an even division for and against, proved that the scientists are as thoroughly split as the continents. Less controversial was a speech by Sir Harold Hartley, the group's president, who came with his own list of the world's biggest problems: 1) the growing strain of increasing population, 2) the malnutrition and endemic sickness of perhaps half the world...
Philadelphia's staid old Girard Trust Co. livened up its 112th annual report last year with Helen Hokinson cartoons gently kidding the customers (TIME, Jan. 31). With this sprightly innovation, Girard Trust won the 1949 "Oscar of Industry" award for the best financial report of any U.S. financial institution, and gained readers as far away as South Africa. This week, in its 113th annual report, Girard Trust turned the tables on itself. It ran cartoons by The New Yorker's Perry Barlow kidding its own officers, particularly vice presidents, topped things off with a guffaw at the hidebound...