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U.S.C. got its interest in aeronautics, and most of the money to go into it, from its chief trustee, millionaire oilman G. Allan Hancock, 70. Hancock has 2,000 hours' flying time himself, backed Kings-ford-Smith's transpacific flight (1928), founded Hancock College, which U.S.C. will take over...
Said Pulitzer Prize Biographer Allan Nevins (Graver Cleveland): "Names of wars are usually inaccurate. What do you say-the Civil War? Or the War between the States, as Southerners say; or the War of the Rebellion, which is the official and rather foolish and unjust name in our records? I prefer the War for Southern Independence. I would like to think this one would become known as the Last...
Last week Robert Young was no longer despondent. In the intervening years of recession and war he had copper-riveted his hold on the old Van Sweringen empire -with the help of $3 million from an old friend and Woolworth heir, shy, tweedy Allan Price Kirby. Now he was ready to consolidate the empire, to make it the base from which he hoped to realize an old Van Sweringen dream-a single transcontinental railroad...
...Class of 1944: John Lawrence Bianchi, Thomas Montgomery Gregory, Jr., Allan Prescott Locke, William Crane Palson, Jr., James Black Wilcox. Cum Laude: Robert Louis Bernstein and Phillip James Scanlon...
Magna cum Laude: Allan Clifford Aisenberg...