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Last week, more than 150 years later, the ivy-covered Davie Poplar still stood on the campus at Chapel Hill as a clutch of topflight U.S. educators (among them 14 college presidents, including Harvard's James Bryant Conant) gathered to hold the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities and to help the University of North Carolina celebrate its 150th birthday. (North Carolina's party had been in progress since 1939: celebrating first the 150th anniversary of its charter grant, then of its cornerstone laying, etc.) Proud old University of Georgia says it got its charter first...
...good at it that President Roosevelt sent him to London during the blitz. He was one of only four Americans to be entrusted with all U.S.-British technical secrets (the others: famed scientists Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton, James Bryant Conant). When the Nazis buzzed over their V-1 and V2, Hovde was drafted to devise countermeasures. He has since supervised the entire U.S. rocket-development program...
Uptown & Cross-Country. The keystone of Dorothy Thackrey's enterprises is the 144-year-old New York Post, which William Cullen Bryant once edited. The paper was a consistent money loser from...
...trustees of a suburban Boston preparatory school were looking for a new headmaster. One candidate they considered was an alumnus then teaching chemistry at Harvard. They rejected him because of his "youth and inexperience." Three months later the alumnus, James Bryant Conant, was chosen president of Harvard. The pick-&-choosy school, Roxbury Latin, is this week celebrating its 300th anniversary. Alumnus Conant, proud of his old school's high standards, will be there to help celebrate...
Raphael B. Malsin, president of the Lane Bryant, Inc. chain (stylish stouts & maternity clothes) patiently explained to Advertising Man Bowles that a store might have bought 1,000 sun suits at $2 each to sell at $3. But on March 19 twenty of the least desirable suits might have been marked down to $2 each; a few to $1, just to get them off the shelves. Result: the composite average of these three prices would be $2. Then on reorders the merchant's selling price would be frozen at cost...