Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics, has been appointed George Eastman Professor of Oxford University for the academic year 1961-62, Courtney Smith, American Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships, said recently...
...Gallup pollsters, the answer is the same: Eleanor Roosevelt, 75, by her customary wide margin. The distinguished others, in the order of their mention: Mamie Eisenhower, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Keller, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Patricia Nixon, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Singer Dinah Shore. Tied for tenth spot in the survey: Monaco's Princess Grace, Britain's Princess Margaret, India's Madame Pandit. Gallup pulse takers announced the results of their similar quest for the world's "most admired" man. The most-for the seventh straight year...
...Jones: "Noah Webster speaks perfectly in English." Smith: "So could I, if I had written a dictionary." * Brown...
...trading, the 1959 volume was certain to be the heaviest since 1929. Totting up the commissions on the trading, brokers happily paid out the fattest year-end bonuses in many a season. At Paine Webber, the extra checks averaged nearly six weeks' pay; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith reported that its oldest employees were getting better than eight weeks' extra pay. In some smaller over-the-counter houses, with low overhead, employees got as much as nine months' additional...
...Courtney Smith of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee announces that only applicants from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton would be considered in future competitions. "Preference will, of course, be given to Harvard students," he adds. West Point goes into a pout and cancels all classes in Rhodesmanship. A communique from President Pusey to Yale President Griswold reading "5 gets you 7 we win again this year!" is discovered by reporters. In a revival of national faith during the Christmas season effigies of Santa Claus are nailed on crosses all acros the land. Oh yes, The Third World War Will Not Take Place...