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...plan, which will go into effect next fall, will provide a midway ground between residence and commuting, Charles P. Whitelock, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House, said yesterday...
...after a varied career as a lumber salesman, army officer, exporter and timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy League degree was assumed to be part of a U.S. diplomat's equipment. In such company Canadian-born Angus Ward, who spoke with a Scottish burr and who had no degree at all, stuck out like a sore thumb...
...pocket. "A man's a man for a' that, for a' that an' a' that . . . The honest man, tho e'er sae puir, is king of men for a' that." Malenkov read in Russian, while an interpreter provided the Scots burr. "A very friendly man," said Lord Citrine later, "with a deep grasp of English cultural life...
Daniel S. Cheever '39, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House, said that although the Presidency was a "man-killing job," to which the usual standards of an 'active life' could not be applied, he thought that Eisenhower would run again...
...will replace John J. Conway, who has been senior tutor at Eliot since the initiation of the Allston Burr system in the fall of 1952. Conway is leaving for England on a year's sabbatical to work on 19th century British and Commonwealth history. He expects to resume his duties as head tutor when he returns...