Word: enthusiasts
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President Conant, Archibald MacLeish, Raymond Gram Swing, and dozens of other educators and writers have had a shot during the past six months at explaining what's the matter with the American undergraduate. Two newcomers join their ranks this month: Mortimer Adler, Chicago professor, St. John's enthusiast, and author of "How to Read a Book"; and Paul P. Cram, straw-boss of History...
...been called to serve in the army. It was under his regime last spring that Harvard polo took its final step receiving its own polo field located in Dedham. This was the gift of W. Cameron Forbes '92, formor Governor General of the Philippines, and a great polo enthusiast...
This week another of Joseph Medill's dynasty, brown-eyed, athletic, 30-year-old Alicia Patterson, the Captain's daughter, became a publisher. Wife (since July 1939) of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, Alicia has like him been a flying enthusiast, been married thrice. (Husband I was the late James Simpson Jr., son of Marshall Field & Co.'s onetime chairman; Husband II was Broker Joseph W. Brooks.) Her newly founded paper: an evening tabloid, Newsday, a "country newspaper" for rich, suburban Nassau County...