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Obvious mental disease is usually detected by local boards. But there are four kinds of mental cases not so often ruled out: 1) psychopaths, 2) men of low-grade mentality, 3) manic depressives, 4) epileptics...
...Grade. To win this control cost Bob Young five years of uphill fighting, most of the grey hairs now on his head. It all started in April 1937, when Bob Young and two tyro financiers bought control of Alleghany Corp. for $4,000,000 cash and $2,375,000 notes. Within a few months the 1937 stockmarket break had forced out one of the trio, the second had taken a back seat. Bob was soon in a head-to-head fight with underwriters Morgan Stanley & Co. (over competitive bidding on C. & O. and other bond issues) and a court skirmish...
Last minute entry for the Academy Award is Bette Davis' newest acting miracle "Now, Voyager." One does not even have to appreciate her to approve of the craftsmanlike piece of work she paces here; and, when combined with the B-plus-grade thriller "Secret Enemies," it makes one of the strongest double feature bills Boston has seen in a long time...
Turned over to Chicago's war scrap pile were three and, a quarter tons of armored limousine-the rolling fortress in which once rode Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. To Philadelphia's scrap collection Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, wealthy widow of the Morgan partner, gave a high-grade steel fence that ringed the Stotesbury Whitemarsh Hall estate. Height of the fence: eight feet. Length: nearly two miles. Content: enough steel for some 18,000 machine guns...
...appeal was voiced by Dean Hanford to Juniors and Seniors, and men on the Dean's List not "to abuse the rather liberal system of attendance at the time of the Christmas recess. Especially for men fearing draft before midyears, attendance is urged for the attainment of a cumulative grade to the time of their departure...