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Personality & Private Life. Married to Mme. La-iad, a prominent feminist and a onetime Senator, Phibun has six grown children, entertains in a sumptuous Bangkok palace. He serves Coca-Cola to guests (a son-in-law is a local Coke concessionaire), and, like Coca-Cola Tycoon James Farley, he has a fondness for green furniture and carpets. Phibun, a devout Buddhist, was born on a Wednesday, and green is the lucky color for Wednesday's children in Thailand. (One of his prewar decrees made dancing compulsory in government offices on Wednesday afternoons.) A canny politician...
...usual, only the President listened to her. Harry Hopkins wrote me a note something to this effect: 'Elementary course in Government from four to five by Professor Frances Perkins.' Later, he passed this to Jesse Jones, who was sitting next to Perkins. I looked at Jim Farley on one occasion and discovered him with his eyes closed. Bob Jackson was nodding from time to time, and, at intervals, he and Morgenthau were joking about something. Hull sat with the air of an early Christian martyr, with his hands folded, looking at the edge of the table without seeing...
...powerful Big Red, which finished its dual meet season with only one less, that to perennially strong Syracuse, placed three men in the first seven, a rare feat in a championship meet. Don Farley was fourth, and Paul Loberg was seventh...
...rest of Cornell's first five consists of Chick Trayford, Paul Loberg, Mike Browne, and Don Farley. Last year when Cornell scored 53 points to Army's 60 and the Crimson's 62, Farley placed seventh and Trayford thirteenth...
...trustee charged with looking solely to the trust's interests. In this case, diverting funds for University purposes or an administrative mingling of the trust with other trusts or departments of Harvard would be an abuse of the trustee's discretion. This was again over-simplifying--the Farley-Dodge argument. Harvard, they maintained, was acting on a loyalty adverse to the Arboretum's interests...