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...Paul R. Hawley, tubby medical chief of the Veterans' Administration, loves to tell tall tales (he files his favorites in a little black book, which he carries around with him). An ardent student of military history, he also likes to debunk such heroes as General Custer (TIME, Aug. 18), and to refight old battles (once, toting an armload of Civil War books, he visited Gettysburg and reconstructed the battle so vividly that his account is now the official one taught at the Army War College...
Life Chemicals. Sir Robert, 61, an ardent mountain climber and chess player, since 1945 president of Britain's ancient & honorable Royal Society, is an organic chemist whose forte is exploring the intricate compounds found in living organisms. He synthesized the delicate substances which color fruits and flowers. He put together artificial sex hormones more powerful than the natural ones. At present he and his chemist-wife Gertrude Maud, whom he met in a laboratory, are working on the production of synthetic penicillin. Organic chemists admire Sir Robert as a master of laboratory strategy. Biochemists honor him for pioneering...
...might be expected from a dozen years of association, Lamar is an ardent disciple of Dick Harlow. "I learned most of my football around here with Dick," he declares and even during his two year wartime stint as head coach, he still considered himself an assistant carrying out the master's principles...
...Crisler System. The intricate system that Chappuis fits into at Michigan is designed by a man who likes to construct puzzles. At 48, greying Herbert Orin ("Fritz") Crisler has the easy, competent air of a skilled physician (he once studied medicine at the University of Chicago). An ardent admirer of Robert E. Lee's battle strategy, he tries to imitate it: feinting at one point, hitting another...
...Ardent Big Green rooter Bill Cunningham, who has devoted two full columns to the clash, managed to avoid the contest itself until the late stages of each article, when he was finally forced to code a slight edge to the Crimson...