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Walter S. Gifford '05, long active in University as well as national affairs, was appointed yesterday to succeed the ailing Lewis W. Douglas as ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...chairman of the board of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company will bring to the London post a broad background in economic and financial affairs. The new appointment is also expected to give a strong boost to the Administration's efforts to keep foreign policy bi-partisan, since Gifford is a Republican...
...former head of the Alumni Association, Gifford's most recent University post has been membership in the Board of Overseers, his second term having run out last Commencement. In this capacity, he served last year as Chairman of the Board's Committee to visit the Business School...
...from a $6-a-week A.T. & T. repairman to engineering vice president of the company in 1936, has unraveled crossed wires in Washington before. In 1940 Defense Production Boss Bill Knudsen, looking for a man to boss construction, called up A.T. & T.'s President Walter Gifford. He was not in, so the operator switched the call to Harrison, who offered to go to Washington to discuss the problem. He wound up taking the job himself. Soon he was production chief of the War Production Board, later served as Signal Corps procurement chief in the Army Service Forces. Harrison...
Soon afterwards, however, Bolles restored the crew to the old order of; Claney Asp, bow; Ken Keniston, two; Ollie Iselin, three; Ted Reynolds, four; Steve Hedberg, five; Jim Slocum, six; all-American George Gifford, seven; Louis McCagg, stroke; and Bill Leavitt, coxswain...