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...theorist but a practical fighter, Ben Lear picked Lieut. Colonel William Crowell Saffarrans, chunky onetime Georgetown University football star, longtime Army football coach, to operate the school. His instructions: make it practical, up-to-date as Guadalcanal...
Condé Nast was not born to fashion. He was born in New York of a French mother and German father, grew up in St. Louis, went to Georgetown University, where he managed the baseball team. Classmate Robert Collier hired him to write advertising for Collier's. Nine years later, age 35, risen to business manager, he had built up the magazine's circulation, fattened its skinny advertising, and was making $50,000 a year. That was when he quit...
...salary (formerly some $23,000), moved from his president's mansion into a smaller house on Quincy Street. He is seldom there. In Washington, where he spends most of his time, he lives in a "four-room apartment -at Dumbarton Oaks, an 18-acre estate in Georgetown given to Harvard two years ago by former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Robert Woods Bliss...
Washington society, despite the heat, had never had a gayer summer season. In swank Georgetown there were more garden parties than ever, and drawing rooms blazed every night until midnight-and after. Washington society was taking generous helpings of canapes and cocktails with its part of winning...
...Colgate's one-eyed Al Diebolt, considered the East's fastest quarter-miler, in the biggest upset of the day, lost the 440 by a foot to an up-&-coming Georgetown sophomore named Hugh Short. Winning time...