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Davidson, the new chairman, is an alumnus of Stanford University, former managing director of TIME International and publisher of TIME magazine for six years, during which it prospered handsomely. "An internationalist, a salesman, an executive," Heiskell says. "He's as comfortable in Mozambique, London or Australia as he is in New York or skiing in Sun Valley." Davidson will represent the company to the outside world and supervise Time Inc.'s dealings with Washington, foreign and local governments, and business groups...
...were fortunate this year to have an alumnus in the area who encouraged students to apply and interviewed them for us," Malin said...
...next six months, the small group of bankers, lawyers and scholars confronted what many labelled an exercise in futility. "The best they can hope for," one cynical alumnus said at the time, "is a man with a mind small enough to take the job and an ego large enough to think he can do it." It was not an easy task in the early 1970s: presidents of major universities were stepping down left and right and the offered job promised many problems and few rewards. Any decision would be seen as political. The Corporation, as one senior faculty member said...
...spring 1976, the former Indiana University pre-dental student enrolled in two science courses at USC with plans to attend I.U. Dental School after deferring for four years. Despite enjoying the course work on the campus of the arch-rival Trojans, the Hoosier alumnus left the classes after just a few weeks to return to managing his growing business interests...
What Harvard Alumnus was the first non-varsity athlete to be a member of both the Varsity Club and the Harvard Hall of Fame...