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Harvard to Hollywood. Edwin ("Din") Land, now a handsome, boyish-looking 46, was a physics student at Harvard when he quit to form his own company in 1932 to market his first major invention, a plastic that filters the glare out of light rays. During World War II, Polaroid Corp. did a $16 million-a-year business making glare-proof gunsights and sunglasses and other products for the armed forces. But by 1948 gross sales were down to $1,481,372 (net loss: $865,256). Land's camera snapped Polaroid into the black again (1949 profit...
President Funston seems preordained for his evangelist's job. He is in the prime of life (45), tall (6 ft. 3 in.), ruggedly built (200 Ibs.), and he has a boyish smile and an easy friendliness that make him at ease with Kansas dirt farmers, Milwaukee matrons or millionaire Texans. He is not interested in who sells the stock-or in what companies-so long as the stock is sound. Says he: "A very small amount of personal savings goes into direct stock ownership. I'm not interested in how we split the pie. I want a bigger...
Handsome, meticulous in dress and manner, tactful and discreet, boyish Peter Townsend in almost no time was proving himself indispensable as confidant and courtier. "If I had had a son," George VI once said, "I'd have liked a boy like Townsend." It was inevitable almost from the first that Margaret, who spent much of her girlhood close to her father's side, should have come to share his affection...
...Third, Prokofiev's Third, the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1. He meant all three, was pained to learn that Ormandy had chosen only one-the Tchaikovsky. As Pianist Gilels stepped onto the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, his short, stocky figure made him look boyish, his high cheekbones and flat face made him look Russian. But he did not seem alien. Like any pianist, he laboriously cranked his piano stool up and down before getting down to business. Then, after the orchestra swept into the big, resonant opening chords, Gilels hammered out the all too familiar...
...struggling little colonial college in Cambridge, Mass., but he decided something would have to be done about Harvard College's library. The collection, he found in 1725, was "ill managed . . . You let your books be taken at pleasure home to Mens houses, and many are lost, your (boyish) Students take them to their chambers, and teare out pictures & maps to adorne their Walls." It was really a wonder that the library had managed to survive at all. "Such things," warned Mr. Hollis, "are not good...