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...calm equanimity, John was once the focal point of a hot controversy. When, on Commencement Day in 1883, General Samuel J. Bridges donated a fund for the erection of a statue to John Harvard's memory, the inevitable question was raised: How does one make a statue of the chap when one doesn't know what he looks like...
...street and in the pub still seems to like Ike and wonder who this chap Stevenson is. But the Laborite Daily Herald says: "Ike has become a pitiful pawn." The thoughtful Economist, which backed Eisenhower a few months ago, last week worried about Ike's association with Taft, wondered whether "Eisenhower, the politician, is a different man from Eisenhower, the architect of a united victory." But, added the Economist, "may the best...
...life with her cousin and childhood friend Jim Latter. When she is still in her teens, not yet mistress of her mind or her emotions, he gets her pregnant. To prevent scandal, her strong-minded guardian, Aunt Latter, marries her off to Chester Nimmo, a bright but poor local chap. Chester, twice Nina's age, is aware of her condition but considers the marriage a bargain. It means a tie-up with a family still socially important, and Nina's small fortune is a windfall. Chester is a Protestant evangelist, almost a mystic, and also burning with radical...
Conant--James Conant, the chap they just elected president of Harvard...
...about this time that the nation at large began to read more and more about "the chap they just elected president of Harvard." At first glance there seemed no reason, for the prominence he had gained in national affairs. Conant was born in Dorchester on March 26, 1893. His family has been in the country since its founding, but the Conants were not part of that tight Boston aristocracy to which the Eliots and Lowells so definitely belonged. Indeed James B. Conant did not make the Boston Social Register until 1935, two years after he had been elected president...