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...Farther afield, wives at Hotel Brunswick and Harvardevens have organized solicitation groups and will assist in the mopping up process of students who have been reached only by mail...
...night in 1922, in the roistering, hillside copper-mining town of Jerome (Ariz.), when a group of citizens sought out a begrimed, grinning mucker and asked him to run for the state legislature on the Democratic ticket. Since then, Lewis W. (for Williams) Douglas, 52, has been led far afield from his chosen career in mining. Last week, President Truman called him from the presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to be United States Ambassador to England. He will succeed North Carolina's O. Max Gardner, who died on the day of his departure...
...pick & shovel corps of Science toils far afield, probing the earth for traces of vanished animals, men and civilizations. Recent doings of the diggers...
...arguments pro and con have ranged far afield into discussions of budgetary balancing, fiscal policy, and inflationary effects, but none of the proponents of tax reform have examined HRI at its most vulnerable point. Despite the apparent justice of an equiproportional tax cut for everybody, the bill proves on closer examination to be a vicious example of regressive tax relief. In effect, the brainchild of Messrs. Knutson and Martin gives little aid to the lower income brackets and reserves the plums for the well...
...When one curtain went up, the other sent down," stated Thomas h. West, Jr. '50 last night, unable to recall anything specific about his two week amnesia attack that led him as afar afield as Jacksonville, Florida...