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When asked yesterday if he had ever been approached concerning the directorship of athletics, Jordan insisted he had not. "I came here as coach of football, that's all," he said. "We shall continue to try to bring Harvard football up. His remarks produced some speculation as to whether Jordan would want to do both jobs, an almost impossible task unless war cut down sharply on local athletics. Men who played under Jordan at Amherst have also disclosed that the coach was constantly trying to raise athletic standards at that school against the colleges "status quo" policy...
...from a sort of emergency field service to a vast organization with elaborate research facilities in its National Institutes of Health. And the lushest, most fruitful growth of the Institutes (to a $50-million-a-year enterprise) had been in the last eight years under Dr. Dyer's directorship...
...Glasgow's Royal Technical College, worked as an office boy in his father's oil shale company. In 1919, Anglo-Iranian (then called the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.) took over his father's company and "Willie came with the shale." He moved up to a directorship, then became Anglo-Iranian's deputy chairman. In 1931 he helped form Shell-Mex & B.P., Ltd. to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell products in Britain, and set up the Consolidated Refineries, Ltd. subsidiary which built such huge Anglo-Iranian installations as the refinery at Haifa. Fraser moved into...
From his father-in-law, A.P. inherited a directorship in San Francisco's Columbus Savings & Loan Society. He soon clashed with other directors over their policy of lending only to a favored few, and walked out in a huff to found the Bank of Italy. It became known as a lender to the little...
...atmosphere came the explosion on the floor of Congress last week. Louis Johnson's enemies thought they had found two vulnerable places to attack him: he had moved into the Pentagon from a strictly political post as Harry Truman's money raiser; he had resigned his directorship in Consolidated Vultee just three days after he was nominated for the office which must decide the future of Consolidated's controversial...