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Professor Fairbank remained at the head of the program through its early years, stepping down from the chairmanship in 1953, and making room for his colleague, Edwin O. Reischauer, of Far Eastern Languages. With Reischauer doing scholarly research this year, James R. Hightower, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, has taken over temporarily. According to Hightower, the program still restricts its enrollment to about 12 students a year because it could not accept more and still keep up the high standard of work that has characterized the study group...
...upfield. Eventually he became Republican lieutenant-governor of Illinois, served without public notice for eight years (1940-48) until the Democrats, headed by new Governor Adlai Stevenson, moved into the capitol. In 1949 Harry Truman put Hugh Cross on the bipartisan Interstate Commerce Commission; four months ago, the rotating chairmanship finally reached him. Last week, out in midfield at 59, Hugh Cross was caught in the latest congressional investigation of a conflict-of-interest case...
...pulpit committee, unable to agree on any candidate, appointed a five-man subcommittee under the chairmanship of Lawyer T. Justin Moore. "I told them I'd take it," Moore recalls, "only if they'd authorize us to go out and hire the best Baptist preacher in the U.S., regardless of where we found...
...Henry Clay Alexander, 53, moved from the presidency to the chairmanship of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., but kept the post of chief executive officer of the bank. He was succeeded as president by Henry P. Davison, 57, formerly a senior vice president, while Thomas S. Lament, 56, also a former senior vice president, moved up to vice chairman. Simultaneously, four older leading officers withdrew from board posts but will stay on at famed "23 Wall" as directors and members of the executive committee. They are George Whitney, 70, former chairman; Russell C. Leffingwell, 77, and Arthur M. Anderson...
...report of the political committee, under Beer's chairmanship, also called for support of a liberal program. The report noted that on most questions "the Democrats are in sympathy with our views," but maintained that they "have been less liberal on the question of civil liberties than Republicans, with certain outstanding exceptions...