Word: careers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hamm, playing the last intercollegiate team match of his three-year career soundly trounced Yale captain Charlie Kingsley, 15-9, 15-10, 15-9 to reverse the lopsided beating he absorbed from Kings ley at New Haven last season...
While in England, Price first became interested in the problems of the civil service career system--a question he was still exploring in a Gov 130 lecture this month. His thesis for the B. Litt. degree was a comparison of the constitutional, administrative, and sociological roles of the British administrative class of civil servant with that of its American counterpart...
Returning to this country in 1935, still set on a journalistic career, Price found himself becoming "more and more interested" in government. ("There was a great deal of excitement about government programs in that period, and I thought I'd give it a whirl.") His first job was with the Central Housing Committee, trying to formulate a national housing policy and to set up machinery for its administration. After two years in Washington, he toured the country with two others on a Social Science Research Council grant, preparing a report on the city manager form of government...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26--Clare Boothe Luce was named by President Eisenhower today to be ambassador to Brazil. There, she will succeed Ellis O. Briggs, career diplomat who may now be assigned to Greece...
...Cannon's career took the couple all over the world. During her travels, Mrs. Cannon became enamoured with Peking's Temple of Heaven ("some things no amount of praise will spoil"), acquired two Russian icons by Italian artists, made friends with eminent scientists of myriad nationalities, including Russia's Pavlov. She swears that her foreign languages remain abysmal, that she never bothers with grammar. Asked whether she lectured to Cambridge on return, she answered, "Oh yes. I afflicted everybody...