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...only bad taste, but also bad faith." A Saintly Dedication. Only a Crimson cub could say that mighty Harvard is foundering under Iowa-born Historian Pusey, 55, himself a Harvardman ('28), who was president of Wisconsin's little Lawrence College when he was named Harvard's 24th president in 1953. Pusey has shown, says one professor, "the dedication to Harvard of a saint to his monastery." Deeply religious, Episcopalian Pusey has revamped Harvard's divinity school. A stout defender of academic freedom, he stood up to Joe McCarthy when the Senator tried to pillory Harvard...
...Yankee. Roughly 60% of the time, Donner operates from behind a paper-free walnut desk in his 24th-floor Manhattan office overlooking Central Park. The rest of his time he spends in Detroit, commuting in one of the company's fleet of twin-engined Convairs equipped with G.M.'s Allison turboprop engines. "He likes to travel before or after working hours," says an aide, "so that he won't miss any time in the office...
...postwar years. Harkins had a tour as commandant of cadets at West Point and a year in Korea, serving first as Taylor's chief of staff and then as commander, respectively, of the 45th and 24th Divisions. He was on duty in Hawaii when Army Chief of Staff George Decker recommended him to President Kennedy for the Saigon post...
...anti-poll tax amendment will become the 24th Amendment to the Constitution [April 6], what was the 23rd Amendment. I missed hearing about...
...half before the subcommittee chaired by Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, Walker told how he had been "muzzled" by the U.S.'s executive branch in his attempts to indoctrinate his troops against Communism, and how, when he persisted, he was removed from his command of the 24th Infantry Division in Germany, and finally resigned from the Army. Now, Walker could feel unmuzzled at last...