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...walnut-paneled room high in a Chicago office building one morning last week, Fowler McCormick, 52, International Harvester Co.'s chairman and big stockholder, met his board of directors for a showdown. The directors wanted to make President John Lawrence McCaffrey top dog in the company, turn the chairmanship into an advisory post. McCormick opposed the change, but the directors approved it anyway. Promptly McCormick resigned as chairman (but not as a director). For the first time since 1831, when Fowler McCormick's grandfather Cyrus introduced the reaper, the largest U.S. maker of agricultural equipment had no McCormick...
...enough acquainted with even one faculty member to ask for a character reference. Professors and students alike have noticed this during the past few years, and felt it was a sign that something is going seriously wrong with the Harvard education. Last fall faculty committee took action. Under the chairmanship of Dean Bender, this group turned out the 133-page "Report on Advising in Harvard College" (the so-called Bender Report). About a month ago, the whole faculty unanimously upheld the underlying principle of the report--that some kind of tutorial system was necessary for the five largest departments...
...five years before Pitirim A. Sorokin came to Harvard, President Lowell made up his mind to form a Department of Sociology. An obvious prerequisite, however, was a sociologist; and not until 1931, when Sorokin appeared to deliver a few guest lectures, did Lowell find one worthy of the first chairmanship...
...Ernie Bevin had shouldered his 250-lb. bulk up to the chairmanship of Britain's Trades Union Congress, the top spot in British labor. At high council tables he used plain, blunt, carefully thought-out words and facts like clenched fists to pummel his opponents...
...chairmanship and the exact personnel of the new commission were still veiled in secrecy. The last act of many departing bookies, who have worked the Widener Stalls with impunity for years was to lay five to three that the post of General Counsel would go to Mr. Benjamin Jacobson, manager of the Gold Coast Valeteria...