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...student involved; and the master of a College must be able to appraise each man living in his unit. This is just another expression of Yale's "benevolent paternalism." Just how active the "paternalism" should be is left to the discretion of the individual masters, but even the most ardent "laissez faire" master spends much more time running his College than his Harvard equivalent. He had no tutors to help and yet he is expected to have close contact with individual problems. College activities, and College improvements. He is able to do this because he is hired as a master...
Thomas Carey Hennings Jr., 47, of St. Louis, who had to buck Harry Truman's hand-picked candidate (lackluster State Senator Emery Allison) in the primaries and hard-campaigning Senator Forrest Donnell in the finals. An ardent internationalist, Hennings campaigned against Donnell's dogged opposition to foreign aid. The son of a Missouri judge, breezy, twice-married Tom Hennings zipped through Cornell and Washington University Law School (where he passed a three-year course in two years). He was a Congressman for six years in the late '3as, distinguishing himself chiefly as a two-fisted drinker...
...Board. At one point she was so busy that she was known as "Seven-Job Anna." As New York regional director of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose husband, Julius Rosenberg, is a Manhattan rug dealer) earned...
...middle age, fumes because his wife no longer understands him. In their own subconscious reactions to the family tensions, the girls go off on rocky tangents: Marjorie into a vapid affair with a college boy, Sally into a dash to New York after her father shocks her with an ardent...
This might sound like a bad break, but Tyrone has already established a lasting relationship with a French girl, Micheline Prelle, who is an ardent Philippine patriot. As it turns out, she is the wife of one of Leyte's leading planters and organizers of guerillas. This doesn't keep Ty from going to parties with her. And when her husband is killed by the Japanese, Miss Prclle moves right in with Mr. Power...