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...Alumnus Donald Russell is a respected Carolinian, a onetime soda jerker and salesman who won first honors at both the college and the law school, rose to be one of the top lawyers in the state. In 1930 he joined the firm of Nicholls, Wyche and Byrnes, eventually became Byrnes's assistant when Byrnes was Secretary of State. The two men later went into partnership again, separated only after the gubernatorial election...
...Dean Acheson's right-hand man, Under Secretary of State James E. Webb, is seriously considering leaving the department himself. In three years, Businessman Webb, a 45-year-old North Carolinian, overhauled the State Department's administration, made sense out of the old welter of overlapping bureaus and responsibilities. Ailing since an attack of virus pneumonia several months ago, he wants a rest...
...South Carolinian, Few went straight to Liggett & Myers after graduating from Trinity College (now Duke University) in 1916, worked his way up through the cigarette factory into tobacco buying and sales, and ran L. & M.'s Philippine Islands operations for ten years before the war. His biggest job as president will be to pep up Chesterfield's sales. Last year Chesterfield sales dropped slightly from $67.5 million in 1949 to $66 million. With 18% of the cigarette market, v. 22.6% for Lucky Strike and 26.9% for Camel, Chesterfield is third in the industry...
First prize of $7,500 (and a $750 regional award) went to 27-year-old Bruce Walker, Navy veteran and Harvard architecture student. Second, third and fourth prizes went to Ralph Rapson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology architecture professor ($5,750), Minneapolis' Wallace S. Steele ($3,250), and North Carolinian George Matsumoto...
...completed, but Captain Sam Grant was a fine, thorough book, the best job ever done on Grant's early years. Another big job done with care and spirit was Margaret Coit's John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, a sympathetic and fair study of the great diehard South Carolinian. Catherine Drinker Bowen put too much fictional gloss on solid John Adams and the American Revolution, but it was the first biography to make him seem wholly human. Irving Brant finished the third volume of his massive James Madison, and William Harlan Hale wrote a fresh, readable Horace Greeley...