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...biggest-and among the oldest-of the noncontributory plans are those of the Bell system-A.T. & T. and its subsidiaries-which roll sickness, accident, disability, death and pension benefits all into one jumbo package. Bell started the plans in 1913 on a pay-as-you-go basis, but in 1927 started setting up a reserve fund for pensions ("funding") because it thought the method sounder. (A.T. & T. now has more than $1 billion in its pension funds.) In computing Bell pensions, an employee's length of service is taken as a percentage (e.g., 20 years = 20%) and multiplied...
...Oldest of the Square's typing bureaus is The Misses Littlefield Twin winters, a year out of Cambridge High and Latin, opened the agency in 1899; their noice, Miss Dorothy Littlefield, has managed the office since 1945. The Littlefield bureau is proud of its alumni, men who it feels have gone through Littlefield's as well as Harvard, and who often visit the Brattle Street office when back in Cambridge. An office library of Littlefield typed manuscripts includes Rollo Walter Brown's "Harvard Yard in the Golden Age," and a study of Milton's influence on English poetry which...
Under its newly-appointed director, William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, the country's oldest Summer School is presenting its usually distinguished Faculty, and a new program of conferences on general topics...
This week, with a correct, quiet pride befitting the occasion, Alex. Brown & Sons held an open house to celebrate its 150th anniversary as the oldest name in U.S. investment banking. Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. and hundreds of other civic leaders dropped by to pay their respects and look over the ship models and old company records on display. They could thank Alex. Brown & Sons for much of the growth of Baltimore and Maryland. It had helped finance the first major U.S. railroad (the Baltimore & Ohio) and most of Maryland's bridges, including...
Most of Sayward's brood are a lusty, hard-working lot. The oldest son marries well and eventually becomes governor of Ohio; one daughter takes a fancy to a red-haired furnaceman, and runs naked in the night to the house of her chosen; another daughter becomes a school teacher. Sayward's son Chancey is the family disappointment; he turns out a priggish reformer and a Copperhead, but he shows up at his mother's deathbed, impressed in spite of himself by her hardy pioneer virtues...