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Employment: The Committee has recommended there be closer coordination between the work of the Scholarship Office and the Student Employment Office. We have begun a search for part-time jobs within the University which can be assigned to undergraduates. It seems certain that during its summer meetings on upper-class scholarship applications, the Scholarship Committee will recommend a list of upperclassmen to receive special consideration in the assignment of jobs by the Student Employment Office...
...almost as many jokes as the Toonerville Trolley. In a current vaudeville skit, the spurned lover threatens: "If you don't marry me, I'll buy a railroad ticket." Says the traveler in a newspaper cartoon: "One ticket to Ciudad Jućrez, please-and can you recommend a good hospital?" When a Cuernavaca-bound passenger train slammed head-on into a freight in the suburb of Tacubaya outside Mexico City one day last week, Ultimas
...pince-nezed Professor William E. Knickerbocker, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, had been in hot water with students for the last four years. He had been accused of anti-Semitic remarks, and of refusing to recommend certain instructors for promotion because they were Jewish. The other teacher, Economics Instructor William C. Davis, had segregated Negroes and whites in the dormitory he supervised. The college had made a full investigation, cleared Knickerbocker, removed Davis from his dormitory job, and declared the matter closed. Last year New York's City Council disagreed: it said Knickerbocker should be fired. That...
...have had no dividends yet, are unlikely to get any this year or next. What, asked one stockholder, was the long-range outlook? Good, said Ed Noble; in a decade TV would be one of the country's great industries. Meanwhile, he said frankly, he would not recommend ABC stock to the investor with modest savings, because "this is a new field and hence the stock must be regarded as a speculation...
...group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian, and being anti-Communist does not automatically mean they are pro-war." Snapped Playwright Lillian Hellman: "I would recommend, Mr. Cousins, that when you talk about your hosts at dinner, wait until you have gone home...