Word: baker
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Expounding his basic philosophy that nothing is certain in the world except change, Howard Baker, instructor in English and one of our rising poets, will give a reading of his works at 4:30 today in the Widener Poetry Room...
...Baker, whose "Ode to the Sea" has been highly acclaimed by Robert Frost and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, will appear under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Series. Former Morris Gray lecturers have been Archibald MacLeish and Robert Frost...
...this important? Well, many years ago "Home Run" Baker amassed the astounding total of twelve circuit clouts in a season. They cheered him and his blows. That was then. Last season fans who got up at the crack of a homer only did so because they ran out of peanuts and wanted attention for more, and bush league hitters suffered painful gastronomic ailments from trying to keep up with a breakfast food company which offered, a case of wunchy-munchies for every round-tripper...
When U. S. Steel's directors sit down to their monthly meeting at 71 Broadway -looked down on by the portraits of J. P. Morgan (Sr. and Jr.), Henry Clay Frick, Judge Gary, Myron C. Taylor, George F. Baker-no swarm of Manhattan newshawks waits outside the door. Their monthly meetings are devoted strictly to business, not to making publicity. The directors hear about broad company policies from their youthful, silver-haired chairman, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., keep up with production and sales operations by listening to tough-fibred, gregarious President Ben Fairless, learn about fiscal problems from their...
...family of five by buying a side of beef wholesale at a little better than half the retail price and having a locker plant's butcher cut and freeze it. Apostle of this drive to invade the cities is stumpy, chipper, leather-lunged Alfred Michael Reilly, Baker's Chicago sales engineer, who has peddled ice machinery for 27 years. Weekly he delivers lectures to persuade Midwest businessmen to scrape up the average $10,000 needed to build a locker plant. Some sales points in his favor...