Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five years ago, in the justified belief that courtesy had become a lost art in the land of the Chevalier Bayard and the Watteau shepherdess, French Psychologist Marcel Ranville organized a new order of French chivalry. L'Ordre de la Courtoisie Française. "Amiability," complained Ranville, "has given way to vulgarity and meanness." To restore the old politesse, Ranville invited the knights and ladies of the new order to pay dues ranging from 500 to 10,000 francs to be used to spread the gospel of good humor, love and fraternity. Some 2,500 adherents joined the cause...
Other Overseer candidates are: Myles P. Baker '22, Boston Physician; Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. '29, President, Steuben Glass, Inc., New York; Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. '29, President, Cincinnati & Suburban Telephone Co.; Clarence C. Little '10, Director, Rosco B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; Malcolm E. Peabody '11, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, Syracuse; Nicholas Roosevelt '14, author, Big Sur, Calif.; and H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, of Boston Science Museum...
Sterling Dow, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, and John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, were named to represent the Harvard faculty. Mrs. N. Bayard Clinch, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, and Mrs. William Magie, Jr., of Winnetka, Ill., were elected alumnae trustees for six years. Robert I. Hunneman '28, Boston lawyer, was re-elected to the Council for eight years...
...Marion Bayard Folsom, 59, of Rochester, treasurer of the $464 million Eastman Kodak Co., who will be Under Secretary, giving particular attention to tax policies. Folsom served (1934-35) on the council which developed the Social Security program and on other business advisory groups appointed by Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Since 1950 he has been the brilliant chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, a private, nonprofit research organization. ¶Horace Chapman ("Chappie") Rose, 45, Cleveland corporation lawyer, who will be Assistant Secretary. Rose's firm (Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis) represents Humphrey's mammoth M. A. Hanna...
Delaware. Republican Senator John ("Whispering Willie") Williams, who was expected to have hard going against an opponent (Lieut. Governor Alexis I. Du Pont Bayard) with a wealthy political and financial background, surprised everyone. Williams' plurality(15,335) was more than twice the margin by which Dwight Eisenhower carried the state. Chief reason: citizens of Delaware heartily approved John Williams' successful campaign against corruption in the Bureau of Internal Revenue (TIME...