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...Brown was a credit to the House. Of course, things had not been that way when he was an undergraduate, but then, hard times had come. The Master pulled a little gold star from his desk and glued it carefully in the space following Brown's name on the chart...
...looked at the names on the chart. That made five stars in a row for Brown. Enough to have his name engraved on the plaque in the dining room for The Cleanest. But there were only six names on the plaque. Frogly, Master of the House across the way, boasted twelve names on his plaque. He looked up at the tower on Frogly's House. The giant gold star was fixed right under the weather vane, telling everyone in Cambridge that here was The Cleanest House...
...Master sighed, put away his box of little stars, and let the chart fall amidst the other rubbish on his desk. It was the new system of House assignment, he decided. He never got any of the clean ones...
...already won renown as a peerless air tactician. He devised "Operation Strangle," which paralyzed Nazi rail transport in Italy, sometimes flew a fighter over his own bomber formations. As one of the Air Force's pioneer instructors, Cannon has a roster of former pupils reading like a star chart. Among them: General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff; General Hoyt Vandenberg, retired Chief of Staff; General Curtis E. LeMay, commanding general of the Strategic Air Command...
...shortage of mortgage money, retailers warned darkly of a sales slump if the hard money policy continued, the stock market jiggled to a year's low of 255, thus pushing dividend yields up to 5.8%, in line with the rising trend of Government bond interest (see chart). George Humphrey did not need to be told what to do; he cut the interest rate on his next issue, while the Federal Reserve Board reduced bank reserve requirements to make more credit available...