Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old League secretary is known for his broader outlook and cooler counsels among Arab hotheads. A member of the Azzazimah tribes which are scattered throughout the Arab world, Azzam Pasha has made a lifelong career of Arab nationalism. "In the Middle East," said one fellow Egyptian last week, "where everyone is someone's vassal, Azzam has no master...
...appointment was just as surprising to the new headmaster, shy, softspoken, young (35) Lieut. Colonel John Mason Kemper, deputy chief of the Army's Historical Division. Until Andover's trustees penetrated the labyrinthine Pentagon to proposition him, Colonel Kemper was a convinced career soldier. Says he: "I've never known anything else...
Died. Will Fyffe, 62, pawky,* keg-shaped idol of the British music halls; of injuries sustained in a fall; in St. Andrews, Scotland. A court favorite, "Our Wull" had a latter-day career in radio and cinema, but had already won early fame & fortune from another generation of variety enthusiasts as a wry, sly, spry character comedian...
...places the Freshman to believe that he has acted as a free agent in picking as his House roommates the people he like the best. He is apt to believe he has chosen of his own volition those who will be his closest associates throughout his college career. This is true, but in a much more limited sense than our Freshman would like to believe. The major group outlines are already formed; they were formed, as a matter of fact, before he ever stepped off the subway in Harvard Square...
...first press conference, Sayre gave a little homily drawn from his own career. Recalling that he was of New England Puritan stock, he said: "We could use a lot of the Puritan precepts right now, particularly that of work." More productivity-as distinguished from more production-was a big part of the answer to inflation. Said he: "I don't believe any of us are working as hard as we can or ought to under the circumstances...