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...Elis are primed to reverse the dual meet defeat which Michigan handed them early in the year by outscoring the Wolverines in the Nationals this weekend, but the Western conference titlists rate a slight edge. They figure to pile up a long string of fourths and fifths and nose Yale out after a bitter two-day struggle. Michigan was dealt a cruel blow in the loss of Jim Welsh, distance star, but Coach Matt Mann's squad has almost unbelievable balance and strength in the sprints and backstroke...
After Oxford, Arthur Kinsolving went to Amherst to be, at 25, rector of Grace Church and director of campus religious activities. In his six years at Amherst he guided no fewer than 56 men into the ministry. Then Boston's Trinity Church, the granite Romanesque pile where Phillips Brooks had risen to fame, called him. He accepted, cut the job's $15,000 salary to $10,000 because he was a bachelor. He plunged into Trinity's manifold activities -40 parish organizations, with a budget of $130,000 a year, called on as many...
...author was a wealthy, two-fisted Dallas wildcatter named Chester Allen ("Chet") Everts, who ran away from home at the age of u and made his pile in the oil fields. Wall Streeters, who know what it is to be spanked for selling strawberries without showing the whole basket, trembled for his hide. Last week SEC, not a connoisseur of Americana, spanked him. A sorry ad appeared in the Wall Street Journal: "... I have been notified by the Securities and Exchange Commission that in publicly making that offer I had violated their rules. My offer therefore is hereby publicly withdrawn...
When Teddy Roosevelt was trustbusting, Omaha's most grandiose mansion was Joslyn Castle. Daring schoolboys pressed their noses against the glass of its greenhouse for a peek at the Joslyn orchids. Their elders exclaimed over the turreted grey pile's pipe organ. But in local society, even organ and orchids could never quite let George Joslyn and his wife Sarah live down the rumor that their fortunes were founded on a quack cure for gonorrhea ("Big G"). The Joslyns went to Omaha in 1880 with $9 and two suitcases. In 1916 sharp-eyed George Joslyn left his wife...
...nuisance. On the day they assassinated the Tsar, a boatload of his pet Palmolive Soap was ploughing the grey Pacific, Vladivostok-bound, By the time it reached Japan the Russians were too busy to wash. The Japanese, no great shakes as soap consumers themselves, let the cargo pile up storage fees for three years. Finally, Soapman Johnson got a tip: Australia needed soap. To Sydney went the lot. Australians snapped it up at 30? a cake...