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Robert R. Gilruth, 48, director of Project Mercury and head of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, is the driving force behind the U.S. manned space-flight program. An aeronautical engineer with both bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota, Bob Gilruth won international recognition in the '40s for his research on the characteristics of aircraft in flight, switched to spacecraft after the Government picked him in 1945 to create an organization to conduct freeflight experiments (and found time along the way to invent the nation's first successful hydrofoil system...
...Saturday afternoon, he wheeled the sheeniest photographers' models through the aisles of the shiniest cafes and the columns of the gossipiest peepholers. He exhibited no head for business, no great ambition to further the family fortunes, no inclination to develop his intellect beyond the requirements of a bachelor's degree at Harvard. He was, in short, a jaded neon scion, sputtering in the dark...
...steelmaker. Brought up as an Episcopalian, he went to St. Mark's School and Yale; with his parents' reluctant approval and support, he studied sculpture in Boston under George Demetrious, painting in Philadelphia and Provincetown, Mass. At the start of World War II, Congdon, a lifelong bachelor, gave up painting to buy his own ambulance, trailed the British Eighth Army through battles in Egypt, Libya, Italy and Germany. "The war was the savior of my life," he recalls. "It gave me a feeling of being needed...
...masterstroke of female wheedling more than 1000 valentines poured into the London office of burly Bachelor Sir Edward Boyle, 38, who as Financial Secretary to the British Treasury bosses his nation's civil-service telephone operators. Harking back to Sir Edward's longstanding promise to try and get them a raise, the switchboard girls wrote...
Candidates for positions as secondary-school or college teachers should take the "Secondary School Teacher's Examination." Others may take the "General Examination" which will be given concurrently. A bachelor's degree is required of applicants for teaching positions. The minimum age for applicants...