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...leave. In the three hours from 9:00 a.m. to noon, there should be little crowding of the office since the whole process would be brief and would require no line. In the afternoon, the staff could fill the orders at random with no special preference for the early comer. The next morning, senior would pick up their tickets at the desk while juniors are filling out orders; the H.A.A. staff would be working at a steady rate all through the day with no frantic crowds at any one time. The procedure would also take much less of the student...
...Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Roswell Burchard ("Roddy") Perkins, 27, the youngest presidential appointee of the Eisenhower Administration. Perkins, who went to Washington from New York last fall as an adviser on social security matters to HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby, was spotted for a comer on his record in the 1952 campaign when he headed "Youth for Eisenhower" in four eastern states. At Harvard (Class of '47) "Roddy" Perkins played end on the football team, later edited the Harvard Law Review. He wrote in his class book: "I look upon the future with considerable optimism...
...last winter, soon after she recorded Moulin Rouge. She was booked into Manhattan's Blue Angel nightclub almost before she knew it, and before she had decided just what her stage personality should be. Reviewers for Variety and Billboard made identical report: "This thrush [is a] comer." But when the run was over, thoughtful Felicia went home to Los Angeles for some hard work on her voice and material...
...titans of those days-Red Grange, Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden, Charley Paddock, Man o' War-have seldom, if ever, been matched. Last week, however, it was clearer than ever that-for track and field sports-another golden age may be just around the comer...
...there is a common saying: "Things don't go right when Bob isn't here." For Bill Knowland, the new assignment is a major challenge. At 44 he is still a stripling as Senators go, both in years and experience, though he is generally regarded as a comer. Knowland's principal task: to steer the Senate through the remaining weeks of the session, and deliver the "must" legislation (mostly appropriations, which are in the capable hands of Styles Bridges) along the course already charted by the Administration and Bob Taft...