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Richard Wellington McLaren likes to tell a story that says a great deal about his main concern as Nixon's chief trustbuster. There was an executive whose firm had been taken over by a con glomerate. Wrote the executive to a friend: "You ask me what it's like to work for a conglomerate? Well, it's just like being a mushroom. First, they keep you in the dark for months. Then they throw dung all over you. Then they...
...insist he is embarrassed by the publicity that he has received ("I don't like running a law office in the public press"), McLaren took his law degree at Yale in 1942. Since then he has spent most of his career specializing in antitrust cases at the Chicago firm of Chadwell, Keck, Kayser, Ruggles and McLaren. As head of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Law Section since 1967, he updated a 1955 report on antitrust activities, and was recommended by his colleagues as an unusually well-qualified candidate...
...show an ability to manage enterprises that promise to benefit the community. Thus CDC turned down applications for liquor stores and a hippie-trinket shop. Instead, it put Savannah's first Negro used-car dealer into business and financed dry-cleaning shops, groceries, beauty parlors, even a small firm that manufactures porches for mobile homes. Thus far, $1,000,000 has been distributed in loans ranging from $2,200 to $25,000. Another $1,000,000 went to the biggest slum landlord in Savannah, a Negro. The money will pay for the renovation of dilapidated houses...
...Fellows' non-Harvard interests often converge on the same company. Since early in this century the Corporation has retained the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray as the University's legal counsel. During that time at least three Fellows--Thomas Nelson Perkins, Charles A. Coolidge, and Francis H. Burr--have been partners in Ropes & Gray. From 1954 to 1965, when Coolidge retired, he and Burr served as Fellows at the same time, Burr also sits on the Board of Directors of State Street Investment Corporation, whose relationship with Harvard's treasurer, George Bennett, is discussed below; Bennett, Burr, and Coolidge...
...college charter of 1650 provides that, besides the President and Fellows, the University's treasurer shall be a member of the Corporation. George Bennett, the current treasurer, is also president of the State Street Investment Corporation. His predecessor as treasurer, Paul C. Cabot, was president of that investment firm and now serves as chairman of its board. Bennett served as deputy treasurer of Harvard under Cabot because he was then vice-president of State Street; he was elevated to Harvard's Corporation when Cabot retired from it. The present deputy treasure is Mayo A. Shattuck, who is also vice-president...