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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman persuaded Symington to stay on in Washington as head of the National Security Resources Board. In April 1951, in the midst of the influence-peddling scandals that rocked the Administration, Truman asked Symington to take one more "load-of-coal" job for him: tidying up the scandal-ridden Reconstruction Finance Corp. Symington opened up RFC records to goldfish-bowl scrutiny by the press, fired employees tangled in the influence-peddling web. It was dreary, thankless work. In early 1952, his cleanup chores done, he resigned and went back to St. Louis, intending to get back into moneymaking...
...Gold Board. Young President Turbeville might have rushed back to Minnesota. A quiet South Carolinian, the son of a chemical salesman, he set out instead to make Northland work. First he expelled more than 40 sluggish students, some of them seniors. He ordered the faculty to crack down on marks, gave every student more work than he could handle. He established stiff entrance exams, rejected applicants below the top half of their high school classes. When stunned alumni asked how freshman-starved Northland could afford it, Salesman Turbeville hit the road...
...biggest individual stockholder in General Dynamics Corp. By the time Turbeville got through with Alvord, the lawyer was a convert. By the time Alvord got through with Frank Pace Jr., chairman of General Dynamics, Pace was a dedicated Northland trustee. By this year, tiny Northland has a solid gold board that many a university might envy. Among its members : Presidential Friend George E. Allen, Publisher Gardner Cowles, Industrialist Victor Emanuel, Movie Arbiter Eric Johnston, Financier Floyd B. Odium...
...Writing is fast becoming the lost activity in the educational process." Last week this statement by able Dean of Admissions Eugene S. Wilson of Amherst College sparked significant action at the annual meeting of the powerful College Entrance Examination Board in Manhattan. Speaking for 15 New England colleges, Dean Wilson had a fairly startling suggestion: add an English essay question to C.E.E.B.'s objective-question tests, the chief divining rod for admission to 287 U.S. colleges and universities. With some misgivings, the meeting finally approved Dean Wilson's urgent proposal. Result: next year, after a decade of multiple...
Biography of a Missile gave Edward R. Murrow and the same CBS crew that put together other notable documentaries (Montgomery Speaks His Mind, The Lost Class of '59) another chance to demonstrate the most impressive techniques yet developed by TV journalism. From the cocky drawing-board confidence of the creators of Juno II, to the unforgettably tense faces of the missilemen when their bird was fired, Biography recorded every important aspect in the life of one of man's most intricate creations. The cameras sighted in on the meticulous welding of Juno's outer skin...