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...like to explore holes in the ground. They say in the Pyrenees, which are as full of holes as Gruyère cheese, that once you become a spelunker (short for speleologist) the passion never leaves you. Such a man was 33-year-old Marcel Loubens. Since boyhood he had been crawling in & out of caves in his native Ariège in southern France. Then he ran an office-equipment firm in Paris, but the passion was still with him. Last year he was a member of an expedition which had set up a new spelunking record...
...know you are right." His unconventional and Spartan childhood apparently did Ben little harm, but he considers this no argument for inflicting the same kind of thing on others. "It's all right if you survive," he says. "Too many don't." He spent much of his boyhood cringing or running away from something, but his well-trained legs proved useful at Andover, where he made the track team and, in general, caught up with the rest of the boys. At Yale he was a social success. At medical school he rose to the head of his class...
...presented to her when he was working on Belgian relief, old Spanish silver, blue and white porcelain. In the dusty antique shops under Manhattan's Third Avenue El, Hoover is a familiar figure today, hunting around for more blue and white porcelain. He cherishes recollections of his Iowa boyhood which suggest some un-Hooverish pictures. "There was Cook's Hill," he writes from his notes. "That was a great long hill where on winter's nights we slid down at terrific pace with our tummies tight to homemade sleds...
...Into the presidency of Parker Pen Co. stepped Bruce Mouat Jeffris, 56, a veteran °f 33 years with the company and boyhood friend of Kenneth Parker, who is moving over to chairman. A graduate of Brown University and the Navy, Jeffris has been vice president and treasurer for Parker since 1947, is expected to hold down the presidency until Kenneth Parker's son Daniel, 27, is ready to take over. Directors last week moved ex-Marine Dan Parker, the third generation in the company, up from secretary to executive vice president...
From the start of his unhappy boyhood, all those adjectives applied to Whittaker Chambers. He grew up at Lynbrook, Long Island, a quiet village 18 miles from New York City, in a ramshackle frame house where his mother still lives...