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...second of three sons of Ohio schoolteachers, McElroy was born in Berea (pop. 15,000), grew up in a strict but comfortable Methodist household in Madisonville, a suburb of Cincinnati, early learned that "God will provide if you go out and scratch." By shoveling snow, wrapping laundry bundles, working in a cannery, he had saved $1,000 by the time he finished high school. A scholarship from Cincinnati's Harvard Club stretched the $1,000, allowed him to work part-time, have enough time left to become a big man on the Harvard campus-varsity basketball center, president...
Following a stern P. & G. code for company officers, he spent a third of his time in unpaid civic service, directed the framing of a master plan for improving Cincinnati, headed Red Cross and Community Chest drives, became trustee of the city's Institute of Fine Arts, a member of the executive committee of the Summer Opera Association, Harvard overseer, an adviser to the University of Cincinnati. In 1955 President Eisenhower tapped him for the biggest lay-educational assignment of all: chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Ike was impressed by the way McElroy steered a conglomeration...
...Nominated, to succeed Charles Erwin Wilson as Secretary of Defense, Procter & Gamble President Neil Hosier McElroy of Cincinnati...
...Housing Chief Albert M. Cole and U.S. mayors, who got $250 million allotment from Administration for fiscal 1958 despite Treasury-Budget Bureau drive to pare sum. Of 264 communities that will receive federal aid, top amounts will go to New York ($25 million), Washington, D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis...
...imply, is dangerous. But by now everyone knows that Aaron is not as dumb as he looks when he shuffles around the field ("I'm pacing myself"), and some experts think he will ultimately rank among the game's great hitters. Says Manager Birdie Tebbetts of the Cincinnati Redlegs, one of the keenest judges of talent in the game (TIME, July 8): "Aaron could win the batting championship for the next five or six years, if he gets to be a well-rounded hitter and learns to hit to right and drag bunt. He's that good...