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With eight seconds to play, Wilson took a pass and drove down the lane past Sedlacek to put in the winning two-pointer. The clock kept running; at the buzzer Sedlacek tried a desperation 35-foot shot, which missed...
...senior partners in the nation's top investment banking houses are millionaires; their salaries run about three times as high as those of officers in competing commercial banks. Hundreds of young men have ridden to riches in the long postwar bull market. John F. Donahue, 41, a West Pointer and former SAC pilot, did so well selling mutual funds door-to-door that in 1955 he decided to form his own fund, Federated Plans. He is now worth...
...next play, Hicks barrelled over the middle for ten yards in his second 6-pointer of the afternoon...
...West Pointer ('36), Clifton took leave shortly after graduation, worked as a cub reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. He decided to become a career newsman, was on his way to Army headquarters in New York with his resignation when he saw a military parade on Fifth Avenue led by an old West Point friend. Clifton tore up the resignation, stayed in the Army for 29 more years. In Italy, during World War II, Artilleryman Clifton's huge 240-mm. howitzers plastered Cassino with 250,000 shells in 120 days, and Clifton won the Legion of Merit...
...school started as a gleam in its mother's eye. Two decades ago, tiny Bonnie Cone, a math teacher hardly taller than a blackboard pointer, began directing a program of college extension courses for ex-G.I.s, using what had been the lost-and-found department of a Charlotte, N.C., high school. This month the school that grew from there, with Miss Bonnie pushing it all the way, was designated the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the juridical coequal of the state university branches at Chapel Hill, Greensboro and Raleigh...