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...went one evening into a downtown cafe and sat down at the counter. The counterman told Joe he would have to eat in the kitchen. "I was awfully hungry," Joe said later, "so I went back there to the kitchen. They put me at a little table near the sink. The dishwasher splashed soapy water on my food, and someone started to sweep the floor and made a dust cloud." Joe was terrified. He plunked down the price of his meal, dashed out through the front door, and ran without stopping all the mile and a half back...
Captain Bill Cleary and his wing-mate Joe Crehore combined for more than enough goals to sink a rough B.C. freshman hockey team yesterday. The score was 8 to 3 for the Yardlings...
...clever enough to sink a ship," he was once told, "but you'll never draw." Piper did draw, though-feathery studies of lighthouses, piers and harbors. Then, in Paris in 1933, he met Braque and switched to abstraction. "It wasn't popular," he remembers, "but the idea of the hard edge attracted...
...family company, Davies bided his time. With ten oil companies, he formed American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, July 19, 1948). With State Department aid, he won an oil concession in the neutral zone of Kuwait and poured $10 million into mapping and surveying the area (he hopes to sink new test wells next month). He set up a Mexican subsidiary with Oilman Samuel B. Mosher, president of Signal Oil & Gas Co., and spent another $3,000,000 getting it into production (present output: 5,000 barrels a day). Then he got Mosher on American President Lines' board, and formed...
...only reasonable defense that the College administration can offer for its percent "sink-or-swim" attitude is the fact that "almost all of our students are accepted at medical schools." This excuse sinks of its own weight, for nobody in the administration has any exact idea of what percent of Harvard pre-meds fall short in the Great Quest. Nobody in the administration knows which students fail to get into medical school, or, what is worse, why they fail. The mistakes, apparently, are buried...