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...David Hill of Luton offered to deliver parishioners' letters for 30? each. Scotland's electricity board got employees' wives to distribute bills by hand. For 72? a letter, one outfit collected mail from London firms and delivered it to Paris by plane. A London builder and decorator named Tim Randall, 24, recruited seven "postmen," mostly students, at 96? an hour to deliver letters...
...first dean whom Nathan Pusey appointed as President of Harvard announced his retirement a few weeks ago, and all of his colleagues seemed to apply the same word to him. "He was a builder", one professor said. The word builder would work equally well if applied to Pusey or any of the men he raised to high positions in the University. The physical dimensions of Harvard, both college and graduate schools, have increased phenomenally in every direction during his eighteen years in office...
...Divinity School, recruiting men like Paul Tillich and Krister Stendhal, and provided new housing for the Education and Design schools. Under his leadership, Harvard went into the air for the first time, with high-rise buildings like Leverett, Mather, and William James. Monuments to Pusey's ability as a builder will remain all over Cambridge long after the current generation of undergraduates has become a memory...
Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition, said that "Dr. Snyder will certainly be remembered as a builder...
...only Republican thing about Barbara Howar is her famed friendship with Henry Kissinger, Washington's most sought-after bachelor. A stunning blonde zinger from North Carolina, Mrs. Howar, 36, got her social start as a Johnson campaign volunteer in 1964 and as the wife of a rich Washington builder, from whom she was divorced three years ago. Since then, she has lived largely by her wits (which are considerable), doing TV interviewing and being an exciting presence at parties along the Potomac?many of the best of which she herself gives in her small house in Georgetown for an eclectic...