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Dedicated Endeavor. Few men symbolize the system as well as Superintendent Bill Jansen, who has stood steadily, even stolidly at its helm since 1947. Like many of his students and many of his teachers, he is the son of an immigrant himself. His father, a Danish cabinetmaker from Kiel, settled in The Bronx, toiled diligently at his exacting trade (Jansen's Park Avenue apartment boasts a collection of intricately inlaid tables fitted by his father's hands), endured hard times and planned better lives for his children. Jansen, a big, strong boy. knew what he wanted...
...German Exchange Committee in accordance with the policy of the Student Council has maintained a cordial and open relationship of consultation with University Hall and will endeavor to keep this relationship. John W. Stokes '54, Chairman German Exchange Program
...Treasury Secretary George Humphrey rose to speak, it quickly became clear that the Eisenhower Administration was not ready to assume trade-policy leadership. U.S. trade policy, Humphrey said, is to be studied by a commission headed by Inland Steel's Board Chairman Clarence Randall, and "I shall not endeavor to anticipate . . . this group...
...Supreme Commander Mark Clark dispatched a letter to North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai. asking for resumed truce talks "in an earnest endeavor to achieve an early armistice." The U.N. Command is a military command, he said, and it does not control the sovereign South Korean government. By agreement, it is supposed to control the ROK armed forces; therefore, the Rhee government broke an agreement when ROK soldiers, acting on their government's secret instructions, aided and abetted the escape of 25,000 North Korean prisoners. But, Clark insisted...
Talking for the New York Times Magazine, James Caesar Petrillo, czar of the American Federation of Musicians, admitted that his unceasing war against any musical endeavor which does not turn a penny for the A.F.M. had plunged him into the already overcrowded field of expertising on the national defense budget. "I'm in the Pentagon on those service bands," said Petrillo. "I find out they got 187 of those bands. They got five in Washington alone, playing for some Congressman or other. 'Whaddya doin' with 187 of them and cutting $5,000,000,000 from...