Word: board
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to Draper, board chairman of the Mexican Light & Power Co. and retired World War II major general, the committee includes: Houston Lawyer Dillon Anderson, onetime presidential assistant for national-security affairs; Detroit Banker Joseph M. Dodge, onetime Budget Director; American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Washington Lawyer Marx Leva, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense; New York Banker John J. McCloy, onetime High Commissioner in Germany; Dallas Businessman George C. McGhee, onetime Assistant Secretary of State; General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), onetime Commander of U.S. forces in Europe; Admiral Arthur W. Radford...
...Harvard's International Relations Club," has around 150 members, of whom at least 20 are "hard core." Based on an "interest in foreign affairs and a belief that the UN is a good organization," the Council is nonpartisan. In '56, both Stevenson pins and Ike buttons appeared in exec board meetings, and president Eldon Eisenach '60 said that "impartiality is the secret of our success...
Though the group has met only twice this term, its purpose is to provide "an opportunity for conservatives--who are not too numerous around here--to get together and discuss their views." Asked about the "coup" in the CSD, Wyman claimed that "the majority of the present executive board had nothing to do with...
...Spike" Canham had a hint of what might happen. A member of the chamber's board of directors for the past 5½ years, he had been asked in January whether he would accept a nomination for the post. Canham went back to Boston, searched his own mind, and huddled with colleagues for several days to determine whether accepting would compromise his integrity as an editor. He decided that it would not, gave the green light...
That was 22 years ago. Since then, would-be Princetonian Knopf went to college (Union) and became vice president (sales) of the firm in which his father is board chairman and his mother president. But he still knows some rich people, and he still wants to make it on his own. Last week Publishers' Row was startled by the news that a major new publishing firm was being founded by Pat Knopf and two big bookmen-Hiram Haydn, 51, for the past three years editor in chief of Random House, and Simon Michael Bessie...