Word: edwin
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...voice belonged to Grace Elizabeth Crum Gruenther, his wife for 33½ years. They have two sons, Donald, who is a major and Richard, who is a captain in the U.S. Army. * A three-man committee (Averell Harriman, Sir Edwin Plowden, Jean Monnet) appointed to examine each nation's economy, and decide what it should contribute. Their goals, approved by a NATO council meeting in Lisbon in February 1952: 50 divisions, half of them active, by the end of 1952, increasing to 70 the next year, to 97 by the end of 1954. Three years later, Lord Ismay admitted...
Advocate alumni have found time, however, to do more in a literary way than the titles above would indicate. Among their ranks are not only Eliot, Aiken, and DeVoto, but George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Van Wyck Brooks, e.e. cummings, Robert Hillyer, Malcolm Cowley, and James Laughlin. In the dramatic line, John Mason Brown, Lincoln Kirstein, and Leonard Bernstein were Advocateers. A few have even become political luminaries: Teddy and F.D. Roosevelt, as well as A.M. Schlesinger, Jr. Such a list is certainly a telling justification for the Advocate's existence. That the alumni...
Summing up the American system of education, Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, said, "Our system gives many opportunities not given to Europeans. As I understand it, I think that Mr. Commager's plan is second best...
...report this week's hair-raising ' cover story on missiles, Los Angeles Correspondent Edwin Rees projected himself along a 15,000-mile course. It zigzagged up and down the U.S. from San Diego to Washington, from New Mexican firing ranges to Seattle plane plants, from SAC air bases to the tropical Bahamas over which missiles are flown. "I baby-sat for a Pentagon colonel to earn a few minutes of his time, and traveled 3,000 miles for a 20-minute interview with one general," he recalls...
Joseph W. Barker, president and chairman of the Research Corporation, announced the selection and noted that Woodward, in becoming the twentieth recipient of the award, "joined a distinguished company including Vannevar Bush, Percy W. Birdgman, Ernest C. Lawrence, Bruno Rossi, Edwin M. McMillan, Edward C. Kendall, Samuel A. Goudsmit, and George E. Uhlenbeck...