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...since the College founding date in 1752. At first on lower Manhattan, then in midtown, and now way up at Morningside Heights, the College has reflected the city's growth in its location. Some Columbia fans like to look forward to the day when the University will have the option of taking another step around town this time to Rockefeller Center. For Columbia owns the land on which the great Rockefeller buildings stand, and on the expiration, sometime around 2030, of the 99-year-old lease that gives Rockefeller the land, Columbia will regain both the property and the buildings...
...Academic Senate's resolution strongly attacked the Regents for failing to stand by its agreement whereby faculty members who would not sign the oath had the option of being cleared by the faculty committee on privilege and tenure. The Senate claimed that in firing 40 members of the faculty after they had been cleared by the committee as agreed, the Board of Regents" . . . has above all violated the principle of tenure, an absolutely essential condition in a free university...
...roar of protest from liquor dealers, amazed at the gullibility of Eugene C. Pulliam's* Republic. The letter, they said, was a fake, a rewrite of old prohibitionist propaganda that had been planted in the Republic as part of the drys' campaign to put over a local option law backed, added the wets, by Oklahoma bootleggers anxious to expand their business...
...Lousy Bucks. Insured by 20th Century-Fox for $900,000 (all it could get), Zanuck last year signed Hollywood's longest-term contract. It calls for him to work ten more years at his old salary of $260,000 a year, with an option to go on for another ten as an adviser at an annual $150,000. As the largest individual stockholder, he has 100,000 shares in the company, plus 30,000 in trust for his children (total current value: $2,616,250). Last year his income from salary and dividends, before taxes, came...
...town of State College has been "dry" since national prohibition ended, although it does permit the sale of beer and ale under a local option rule...