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...Affairs' editorial board, board of trustees and list of charter members were studded with such bigwig names as James Landis, Will Clayton, Gardner Cowles, William Benton. Pardridge had dreamed of just such a board when he was an unpromising student at the University of Chicago. There he had flunked 27 courses (freshman English four times), remained a freshman three years, never did get his degree. Later he wound up on the Chicago faculty as an $1,800-a-year research assistant in geography...
Topped only by the three firsts of Clayton Farrar of the Reddish A. A., Fisher took the 56-pound weight throw with a heave of 34 feet, 2 1/2 inches, and also walked off with top honors in tossing the caber. His winning caber toss was 34 feet, 11 inches...
Mountain to Molehill. Out of the White House tumbled a torrent of major & minor appointments: Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton to the newly created post of Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; Kentucky newspaper editor and onetime governor Keen Johnson to be the first Under Secretary of Labor; seven other new diplomats, judges, administrative aides...
...forth the essential good in every splinter of Christianity. But the effort is well made and to better purpose than merely striving to please. In opposition to those who would force all Protestants into a Procrustean bed of "unity" (as the Christian Century's fiery Charles Clayton Morrison would), Author Hedley sees no innate evil in sectarianism as such. To him each denomination is a division in the mighty army of Christ, bearing different designations, emblems and proud traditions. Says...
Born. To the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr, 37, New York Congressman and Harlem preacher; and Hazel Scott, 26, boogie-woogie artist: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Adam Clayton Powell III. Weight...