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...others in Emmy Awards. This must not happen again. We must close the Emmy gap immediately. Therefore I have directed all vice presidents to turn their attention to this year's awards so that next year we can be up there on the podium getting ours. Remember the motto of this company: Neither be the first nor the last. Following are a few notes off the top of my head about last week's award program...
Girls circulated "Keep Edward" petitions: their motto was from Pliny the Elder: "If head residence can keep babies, why not cats?" One Cliffe pointed out that the mette is especially timely. "Babies are disgusting," she said. "Head residents should be encouraged to stop having babies and start keeping eats...
...Bache & Co. Inc., which stands second in size ($90 million gross) to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith ($227 million) among U.S.'s brokerage firms, desks are decorated with a motto of the house: "Learn to listen." The man that Bache's 5,000 employees are expected to listen to most intently is Chairman Harold L. Bache, 71, whose granduncle founded the firm 87 years ago. Last week, after Bache President Adrian C. ("Ace") Israel, 50, suddenly resigned because of "a basic disagreement over corporate policy," Wall Streeters were saying that the real reason was that Israel had found...
...Latin motto -- "wisdom challenges youth's vigor" -- adorns a perpetual trophy designed by coach Edo Marion for this revival of an old tradition...
...unassuming motto of the Corps of Engineers is Essayons (Let's try)-an injunction they heeded with distinction in the tropics of the South Pacific and the frozen hills of Korea. Now they are learning to take the sands and swamps of South Viet Nam in stride. As an instructor at Fort Belvoir put it last week: "A bridge is a bridge wherever you build it. If you can build it one place, you can build it another...