Word: stephens
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Shortly after Jan. 1 of this year, the Stephen Daye Press staff was gathered in conference to think of a good name for a series of ski cartoons which had been drawn by Max Barsis, author of one of our books, Bottoms Up: An Unreliable Handbook for Skiers. . . . Dubious suggestions from each one of us (witness skitoes, skiskits, skiddings, shinnies) were mentioned and howled down, when one of us suggested skidaddles, and another of us bridged the gap to skidoodles...
...missionary district of Nevada" the National Council of the Episcopal Church three years ago sent tall, bustling Rev. Henry B. Thomas, a onetime chaplain at Princeton. The Rev. Mr. Thomas took over St. Stephen's House at the University of Nevada's gates, began to befriend Reno's Youth. Last fall he organized among the high-school boys & girls a Supper Club, which met at his house for eats, games, discussions. In no time at all they organized a Youth Movement...
Juniors and Seniors, proctors outside the Yard: and student organizations come under the jurisdiction of Stephen H. Stackpole '33, whose main job is to guide bewildered upperclassmen through the maze of University red tape. A former teacher at Governor Dunmer Academy. Dean Stackpole served for several years as President Conant's secretary, a post for which he was trained as editor of the Lampoon. Seeing more than 600 students a year, he does everything from receiving petitions for loans to trying to persuade City Councilor Mike Sullivan not to break up College productions...
...horrible example was Continental Securities, acquired in 1937 by a gang of speculators, most of them now behind the bars, for whose skulduggery Continental's bankruptcy trustee is asking $3,300,000. Stephen Paine, of Wall Street's reputable Paine, Webber & Co., lent the sharpers $580,000 to buy the voting stock of Continental, grab control of Continental's $3,371,000 portfolio. This they liquidated, replaced good stocks with securities of paper investment companies...
Because his birthday (66th) fell on St. Patrick's Day, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan was made an honorary member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Bridgeport, Conn...