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...addition to these, Pusey has appointed the following men to an advisory committee of Harvard alumni: Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; Larid Bell '04, Chicago lawyer; Walter S. Gifford '05, honorary chairman of the board of American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Joseph C. Grew '02, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Learned Hand '93, former judge, U.S. Circuit Court, New York; John Lord O'Brian '96, Washington lawyer; and Eliot Wadsworth '98, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
Election of a trout-fishing President in 1952 must have encouraged conservationists and those who favor orderly development of natural resources. After all, the G.O.P. was the party of Theodore Roosevelt, of Gifford Pinchot, and of George Norris, all pioneers in the conservation field. And Eisenhower's selection of Douglas McKay as Secretary of the Interior might even have seemed auspicious, for McKay, while Governor of Oregon, had favored federal development of a high multi-purpose dam at Hells Canyon...
...same way he brought buildings, Sacher set out to buy a faculty. He had to. Given the philosophy of starting at the top, the faculty was the sine qua non. He succeded in getting men like the late Ludwig Lewisohn, Leonard Bernstein '39, A.H. Maslow, Max Lerner, Irving Gifford Fine '37, Herbert Marcuse, and Frank Manuel...
...Upjohn Co., which is making one of the drugs under the name Orinase, circularized 200,000 U.S. doctors with a double warning: 1) it is too early to be sure how effective the pills will be; 2) they are not yet available for general prescription. But President E. Gifford Upjohn (an M.D. himself) suggested that "a breakthrough may have occurred." Western Reserve University's Dr. Max Miller hailed the drugs* "the most significant development in diabetes since Banting and Best discovered insulin...
While teaching, Tillich will continue work on his book "systematic Theology II." He gave the substance of the volume for the Gifford Lectures in Scotland last fall while on leave from the University. It will be ready for publication within three years, Williams said...