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Coming up against unexpected resistance, the Winthrop team, which leads the league, had its hands full subduing a fighting Kirkland outfit, and won only by a 5 to 2 margin. Charlie Griffith and Dick Moot fought stubbornly for Kirkland, but Jim Rousmaniere, Rob Winsor, and Bill LaCroix, in the Winthrop first line, were too fast for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES EDGE LOWELL IN FIERCE HOCKEY TILT | 1/9/1940 | See Source »

...Lake Placid, where the Crimson dropped the first game to the Tigers 3 to 6 won the second 5 to 3, and tied the third 6 to 6 the forward combines showed that they had come a long way since the season's start. Rob Perkins was changed to right defense filling Sherm Gray's position, while Rob Gorham held down the left wing position on the first forward line. With Gray back in action tomorrow. Perkins will probably be shifted up to the forward line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM READY FOR McGILL CONTEST | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

...longer as young as he once was, and his remarks made less than no sense. Electric rates are not based on per share stock prices; they are based on the total amount of money invested (or supposed to be invested) in the business. Nor could Commonwealth & Southern rob Consumers Power even by buying its stock at 1? a share: Commonwealth & Southern already owns 100% of the common stock of its subsidiary, and regardless of price will still own 100% after the transaction it proposes. For that matter, Commonwealth & Southern would lose nothing by paying $1,000,000 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week, contriving to avoid all the fuss & feathers they could, Rob and Bill celebrated their 50th anniversary in Rochester banking, Rob as president of Rochester Trust (third largest in town with resources of $42,540,898), Bill as vice president of the Lincoln-Alliance Bank & Trust Co., largest in Rochester and one of the 100 largest in the U. S. (resources, $86,487,946). That night they sat in honor seats at separate country-club dinners, smiled at many a twin-crack and went home early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Boys from Rochester | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Boys-from-Syracuse fixes have complicated the steady lives of the boys from Rochester, but they face routine confusions. Recent example: a friend mistook Bill for Rob on Main Street, apologized for his error when Bill identified himself. Few days later he stopped Bill again and told him of his mistake, again sure he was Rob. Bill did not bother to explain. After 70 years it is an old story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Boys from Rochester | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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