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...Twelve years ago President Conant decided that something should be done about Harvard's reputation for producing effete esthetes, few in actual number, but high in visibility. Results: a $100,000-a-year scheme of National Scholarships, to bring to Harvard talented, tough-minded Westerners and Midwesterners; and a general admissions policy aimed at attracting "healthy extraverts...
...hunch was right. Women flocked to buy the handsome packages with the masculine names ("Chukker," "Steeplechase," etc.) for their men-some of whom finally took to getting the stuff for themselves. In the $50,000,000-a-year industry, Courtley has become one of the leaders in class, one of the big six in volume of sales (the other five: Seaforth, Sportsman, Shulton, Yardley, Lenth...
Last month Missouri's Senator Frank Briggs received a routine patronage notice from the postal department: the $4,500-a-year postmastership at Clinton, Mo. (pop. 6.041) was open...
...graduate, Parks raised $2,000,000 for St. Louis (Catholic) University. Last week Parks, 47, now Midwest distributor for Ercoupe planes, presented his $3,000,000 Parks Air College lock, stock & barrel to St. Louis University. Then he traded in his president's title for a $1-a-year job as dean of the university's new college of aviation...
...once to start their own agency. Close on their heels went ten other key men and three fat R.&R. accounts. Raymond F. Sullivan, 48, chairman of R.&R.'s plans board, took along the $1.5 million-a-year Noxzema Chemical Co. account, which he had handled for more than 20 years, and the $500,000-a-year billings of Smith Bros. John P. Cohane, 34, brought along the $1.5 million business of the drug division of American Home Products (Anacin, BiSoDol, Kolynos...