Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When redheaded Paul C. (for Clifford) Smith became editor of the San Francisco Chronicle 15 years ago, he was the wonder boy of journalism. Only 29, Editor Smith soon cured the ailing Chronicle, broadened its horizon to include columns heavy with culture, foreign news and features. He picked up new readers steadily, experimented with such ideas as departmentalizing the news, developed a staff studded with columnists and breezy local writers. During World War II, he resigned from the Navy, after serving as a lieutenant commander, to enlist as a private in the Marines, did combat duty in the Pacific...
Both incumbents from the sophomore class, elected as freshman representatives last year, gained re-election. They are Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. of Lowell House and New York City and George F. Baum, Jr. of Dunster House and Corsicans, Taxes...
Elsewhere on the Ames front John S. Rodgers '51 and N. Clifford LeFebvre '51 sprung a surprise upset on the identically-dressed Lubell twins, in an argument Chief Judge Dean Erwin Griswold called ". . .interesting...
...Steel flexed its muscles, it also shifted its high command. At 62, Chairman and President Ben Fairless was ready to turn over some of his duties to a younger man: Executive Vice President Clifford Hood, 58. Hood has had a big hand in planning and building Big Steel's huge expansion, including the $400 million Fairless works (TIME, Nov. 12, 1951), the biggest steel complex ever built at one time. On Jan. 1, he will take over Big Steel's presidency, though Fairless will still be the chief executive officer, bossing policy while Hood bosses operations...
...early prospect for Secretary of Agriculture had been Representative Clifford Hope, Ike's able campaign adviser on farm policy. Eisenhower and his advisers, however, decided it would be unwise to lose him as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee (a job he will hold next January). Hope's successor would have been Minnesota's August Andresen, who represents a dairy state and might therefore antagonize grain farmers who suspect all dairymen of trying to lower grain prices. Ike's final choice: Ezra Taft Benson, a Utah marketing expert...