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...years as a weatherman-five of them as chief meteorologist for the city of New York-Benjamin Parry has seen vast improvements in weather predictions and weather service. The Weather Bureau (which once closed up shop every night at 10) now gives 24-hour service, predicts minimum & maximum temperatures, wind velocities, and types and volume of precipitation...
Robert L. Berger, Piya Chakkaphak, Henry N. Claman, Pascal Covici, Jr., Humphrey Doermann, Werner Drehmel, Charles W. Eliot 3d, William R. Engstrom, Benjamin Goldstein, Malcolm C. Greenridge (captain), Robert S. O. Harding, John H. T. Harvey, Edgar C. Henshaw, John A. Kauffman, John A. Kiggen 3d, Robert F. A. Lawson, Laurence B. Leonard, Jr., Duncan H. McCallum, James L. McLaughlin, Charles C. Osborne, Hewitt Pantaleoni, Joseph P. Flemming (manager...
Since the Dean's Office believes too many freshmen's eyes popped during last year's campaigning, a committee of freshmen has been formed to rule on practices. Chairman Charles Cabot, Benjamin McDonald, and Charles Peterson must judge all posters and stunts. No "overt sex" is allowed...
...dear God, please bless the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Girard Trust Co., and the Republican Party." Thus, says Author Struthers Burt, the children of Philadelphia's rich once closed their bedtime prayers. Ever since ex-Mayor Benjamin W. Richards helped found the Girard in 1835 (naming it after Philanthropist Stephen Girard), the bank has been one of Philadelphia's strongest pillars of good business and decorum. It was the first trust company in its district to join the Federal Reserve System; it thought it should, "from the standpoint of patriotism." In its vaults lie the securities that make...
...other less illustrious but equally interesting personages in Old Granary: Elisha Brown, for instance, who in 1769 barricaded himself in his home and for 17 days successfully "oppofed a whole Britifh Regt. in their violent attempt to FORCE him from hif legal habitation." And there is the tomb of Benjamin Woodbridge, who died in the first duel fought in Boston, after quarreling with his friend over a game of cards. The friend skipped the country in a British vessel and died of grief in France...