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...Margarita, former Crimson backfield coach, was named head football mentor at Georgetown University last week...
...Treasury in 1933, only to fire him six months later for objecting to Roosevelt's dollar devaluation policy. To friends, Roosevelt dusted Acheson off as a "lightweight." The lightweight promptly built up a small fortune as a corporation lawyer in Washington. He bought a fine home in swank Georgetown for his pretty artist wife and a 120-acre farm in Maryland. He picked up fat fees from utility companies fighting the New Deal. Though he was not a Government official when war in Europe came along, he helped put over the 50-destroyer deal with Britain...
Operation Pearson proceeds in a supercharged atmosphere of tapped wires, shadowed cars, anonymous phone calls and secret files-and he glories in it. The GHQ, his combined home and office, is a cluster of yellow brick buildings on a quiet corner in Georgetown. Its head man, "DP" in the office lingo, is up at 6:30 a.m. in bathrobe and slippers, to tinker with a first draft of The Column. Precisely at 8 he shaves, turning the bathroom radio to an NBC news roundup that often brings the voice of his brother Leon, a commentator, from Paris...
Crimson yachtsmen will travel to Washington, D.C. this weekend in search of the last balmy breezes of the season and the President's Trophy, offered the winners of a 12-college regatta by Maryland, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities...
...football at Williams, and Bill, 21, was captain of this year's Yale team. Yale's Coach Herman Hickman rates Bill, a 195-lb. center, the equal of any center he coached at West Point during the war. Then there was Bob (ex-Dartmouth jayvee), Jack (ex-Georgetown), Tim (ex-Williams), Bud (ex-Yale jayvee), and Mary, who married Tom Conley, the captain of the 1930 Notre Dame team...