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Death of a Hero. The president's collar was quite a thing to wear. When Palmer took charge of the company in 1929, it was wilting badly. Cluett, Peabody sales, which reached a peak of $32 million in 1919, had been based on the Arrow Collar, as worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl...
...question in both coaches' minds--morale. Valpey said last night that the Harvard squad is not at all overconfident, but this bureau doubts whether the boys can possibly reach their peak of last Saturday. In addition, Cornell will certainly be less cocky than Columbia was. Columbia had just beaten Rutgers, 27 to 6. The Big Red squeezed by Navy, 13 to 7 last week--a Navy team which has not won a game in over a year...
...Milwaukee, Morris Sayre, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, told reporters that he thought inflation had already passed its peak...
...American offered special family rates on the first three "off-peak" days of every week. Last week 744 families (the father pays full fare, wife & children only half) flew in American planes out of New York alone. American figures that the "family package" has boosted its DC-6 load-factor from...
Several factors have combined to drive the number of men living in the College above last year's all-time peak: the graduation of many married students formerly living outside the College, the invulnerability of men for draft during their current year, and the discontinuance of enforced commuting. Coupled with less important changes such as the drop in the mortality rate, these shifts have brought about temporary housing of Freshman in the gym and placed extra men in rooms throughout the College...