Word: gladhander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would not fit in. An aloof man with a Dewey mustache, a high recommendation from Harvard's President Conant, and a belief that all he was asked to do was to run a good university, he declined invitations to speak at Rotary clubs, could not bring himself to gladhand state politicos. He angered the faculty by polling the students to find out which professors they respected and which they considered dullards. Even when he joined a faculty barbershop quartet and tried to sing in harmony, New Mexicans decided that he just wasn't one of the boys...