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Heads on a Skimmer. Each year the company scours U.S. colleges for their ablest men, lures about 350, has gradually moved its requirements so high that Greenewalt quips: "If we had had the same system then, I couldn't have got in." Beginners' pay is low ($317 a month for a B.S., $375 for an M.S.), but advancement can be fast. Once a man breaks ahead of his average age & salary group, his name will pop up on a "skimmer chart" which Greenewalt constantly consults. That man is then moved around departments to broaden his experience. Greenewalt...
...This Is the Problem." Under the Bronk Plan, Johns Hopkins will go after the ablest students it can find. (Part of the $75-$100 million Bronk wants will go for broadened scholarship aid to attract them.) Unlike the University of Chicago, which also lets students go as fast as they can, Hopkins will not require any standard set of courses unless a student wishes them. A first-year man may start right out taking graduate physics and senior German if he is qualified. He will not have to aim for a degree, can plan his curriculum (with the help...
...Some of Mr. Republican's ablest party colleagues also rose to dispute the Taft and Hoover logic. "It is hard to understand how anyone can contend that the development of a defensive holding force in Europe . . . could look like aggression to such realistic men as the rulers of the Kremlin," said Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "We have . . . to get the arrow point from West to East, not from East to West...
...ablest craftsmen in this modest vein is 32-year-old, Sussex-born P. H. (for Percy Howard) Newby, who is little known in the U.S., but highly regarded at home. His new novel, The Young May Moon, is so neatly constructed and so quietly effective in the flow of its prose that until the very end it seems more substantial than it actually...
...seconds" to be one of Donald Nelson's vice chairmen of the War Production Board. ("Hell's loose, and I've got to do something about it," said Wilson.) Right off, he began battling with Manhattan Investment Banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, one of Nelson's ablest assistants, over methods of getting the most out of U.S. corporations. Their differences of approach eventually boiled down to the question of which man would go and which would stay. Nelson ruled for Wilson and fired Eberstadt, although Wilson later came to praise (and use) Eberstadt's Controlled Materials Plan...