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Start & Stop. When Moe Annenberg was sent to prison in 1940 (he died a month after his parole in 1942) and Walter had to take charge, he quickly proved that he knew the difference between Matisse and Adams. Against the stiff competition of Robert McLean's Evening Bulletin (circ. 693,104-"In Philadelphia nearly everybody reads the Bulletin"), he kept the Inquirer growing, started Seventeen, a fashion magazine for teenagers. (He also decided that two movie magazines, Radio Guide and Click, a picture magazine, ate up more hard-to-get paper than they were worth, killed them.) While...
Except for Lee, none of the Crimson's other four quarterfinalists went any farther. Dick Adams lost to Douglas Blackman of Cornell 7 to 0 in the 130 pound class, and Dick's brother Bud was topped 8 to 1 by Angus McLean of Brown at 137 pounds...
Back in 1945 the late Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts phoned Calvin Stowe McLean, president of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines: "Is it true that there's uranium in our gold mines?" McLean told Smuts: "Yes, but it is of no commercial value." Said Smuts (who knew about the Manhattan Project): "I want to know how much there is and how we can get it out." From this conversation grew a plan to combine uranium production with gold production (both from the same ore). In his Atomic Energy Act, Smuts put a clamp (20 years in prison...
...ours." Every place he went, the words touched off a celebration. The staffers had good reason to celebrate. For $7,600,000 they had bought their newspaper from Washington's American Security & Trust Co., trustee of the 111-year-old Enquirer since the death of Owner John McLean...
Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27 introduced the speakers, and Crane Brinton, McLean Professor of History, acted as moderator...