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Williams College President James Phinney Baxter will join with President Conant in discussing "The Scholar's Contribution in a Free Society" at the Friday afternoon session of the convention. Along with the two educators, Alan Greff of the Rockefeller Foundation and industrialists Oliver E. Buckley and General Brehon B. Somervell form the rest of the panel...
...made no limitation on time," said Ike. What were the chances of war with Russia? "Not now, that's certain. She's not ready." What would he do before he assumed his duties as president of Columbia University? Ike laughed. His ideas were like those of General Brehon Somervell, he said: "Find a cottage with a rocking chair on the porch and sit there for six weeks or so. After that I'll begin to rock-slowly." (Actually, Ike is going to write his war memoirs...
...worked at the top. At one time or another he had turned his persuasive efforts on Secretary of War Robert Patterson (to get the Garssons an E award); Under Secretary of War Kenneth Royall (to see about unfreezing Garsson funds, which were held up during profit re-negotiations); General Brehon Somervell, wartime head of the Army Service Forces (to investigate a cutback contract for Garsson-made truck bodies). Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr., former Chief of Ordnance, heard from Andy so often he began to refer to their telephone chats as "blitz calls...
Many a retiring general and admiral had landed a snug industrial job: the Seabees' Admiral Ben Moreell, onetime Coal Administrator, as chairman of the board of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; the Army Service Forces' General Brehon Somervell as president of Koppers Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, at a $75,000 salary; wartime ordnance chief Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr. as an International Harvester Co. vice president; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle as vice president of Shell Union Oil Corp...
...record of six christenings was second only to the eight splashed up by California's first lady, Mrs. Earl Warren. Mrs. Henry Wallace, Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg and the wife of economy-minded Comptroller General Lindsay Warren all took remunerative whacks. A $1,000 watch was presented to Mrs. Brehon B. Somervell, wife of the wartime Chief of the Army Service Forces, $31 in silverware was the best Millionheiress Doris Duke could...