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...years passed, "this boy" was to prove that being a good chemist was not necessarily a handicap for a Harvard president. James Bryant Conant was soon just as much at home presiding over the Harvard Corporation as he had ever been puttering about his laboratory. A mild-mannered Yankee, with a cracker-barrel wit, he may have been quite a wrench from such grands seigneurs as Charles Eliot and A. Lawrence Lowell. But by this week, as he boarded his plane for Germany to begin his job as U.S. High Commissioner (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), professors and teachers across the country...
Pebbles & Trains. For some Harvardmen, Conant took a good deal of getting used to. Striding across the Yard with a sheaf of papers bundled under his arm, he looked more like a minor clerk than a president. Sometimes on a Saturday, he could be seen tossing pebbles at a laboratory window, trying to catch the attention of one of his ex-cronies at work inside, and sometimes he could be found playing with an electric train on the floor of the presidential ballroom. Even some of his ideas were a bit disturbing. He hated silver spoons and ivory towers...
Speaking in Bonn at his first official press conference, Conant stated that President Eisenhower's announced intention to repudiate secret agreements does not apply to Germany. He added that the question of German boundaries "will be settled at the final peace treaty in the formulation of which Germany will have a voice...
...Conant met yesterday with the British and French High Commissioners. After further talks with West German leaders in Bonn, he plans to Tuesday to pay his first visit to Berlin. That city is now faced with the possible threat of another blockade. Next Friday he will meet with American military leaders at Heidelberg...
President Conant, in his now post as U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, has squelched West German hopes that the United States will repudiate the Potsdam agreement on German frontiers...