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...doubled and Tom Bilodeau followed with a walk. John Dockery's sacrifice bunt moved them to second and third. When O'Donnell grounded sharply to Fazen at second base, Houston tried to score and was thrown out by a step. Dan Hootstein then stroked a rising line drive to ward right field, but Fasen west high in the air to trap it and end the inning...
...More businessmen are going back to school to teach. Nearly 15% of Detroit University's business faculty are returnees from business. Chairman John Barr will soon leave Montgomery Ward to become dean of Northwestern's business school. A substantial number of executives now teach part time or temporarily. Former General Counsel Leland Hazard of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. gives a culture course at Carnegie Tech, and Ford Financial Vice President Theodore Yntema will lead seminars there this fall. Paul M. Mazur, a Lehman Bros. partner, is a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School...
Graduated Gifts. Ward was the son of a wealthy New York banker. He spent four frolicsome student years in Europe, lumbering about the Continent in a huge carriage fitted out with sleeping accommodations for two. Returning home, he married the granddaughter of John Jakob Astor, then the richest man in the U.S. His European polish might have seemed a liability in American politics, but he knew just how to put it to good use. Operating on the principle that "the shortest distance between a pending bill and a Congressman's aye is through his stomach," he installed a French...
Nation's Teacher. Then, melodramatically, Ward's life changed again. In from San Francisco came a man whom Sam had nursed to health years before-James R. Keene, who had lately made $4,000,000 in gold shares. Aided by Ward's Wall Street connections, Keene parlayed his bankroll into a $13 million fortune-and handed...
After all, Al Vellucci is nothing more than the old ward "boss." Most civic texts frown on bosses. The boss, the theory runs, sacrifices the general interest to the very particular needs of his own district. And there is al- ways, the implication that the "boss" or the machine is easily corrupted...