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That left another gap in Adler's set of academic credentials. He had quit DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx before getting a diploma. Late last week the school's alumni association offered to make him an honorary graduate...
...intervened with an acquaintance, the Attorney General Francis Biddle, and members of the Department of Justice; these men opposed internment. General DeWitt, in command of West Coast Army headquarters, joined the pressure; "military necessity" overruled objections from Washington. In my recollection, McCloy was not an actor in what quickly became West Coast mass California hysteria. David Riesman...
DIED. William DeWitt, 79, hustling, persuasive baseball-club owner and executive, affiliated with nine pennant winners in both leagues, who began his 50-year career selling soda in St. Louis' Sportsman's Park; in Cincinnati. In 1944, DeWitt, general manager of the hapless St. Louis Browns, helped drive the team to its first and only pennant. His astute trades while general manager of the Cincinnati Reds helped "the Ragamuffin Reds" clinch the pennant in 1961, the club's first in 21 years...
...chronic and repeated in the same sites in an artery wall, then you have a buildup." Cholesterol and debris collect around the muscle cells, an atherosclerotic plaque develops and the artery narrows. Platelets continue to congregate and may eventually help create a clot that completely blocks blood flow. Says DeWitt Goodman of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: "There is good reason to think if you interfere with platelet function you might reduce the chance of heart attack or stroke, but it is not 100% proved...
Wallace's career might have provided a model for one of his magazine's profiles, which have always favored Horatio Alger sagas of the onward and the upward. His father was a Presbyterian minister who became president of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., where DeWitt was born...