Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just all this conventional wholesome aura that makes Glenn remarkable. It's almost impossible to believe that he's for real, not a screen fiction or a male advertising manikin. It's almost impossible to believe he's for real, he is such an embodiment of the traditional American ideal. Describe him to a Cliffie and she would call him uncool; introduce him to her and she'd flip...
Stretched out casually on a plot of Business School grass, the setting sun glinting off his freckled pate and space capsule cufflinks, Glenn talked about himself last Thursday with a pair of Summer News reporters. He came to Harvard to address an annual summer school educators conferencet, being held this year on juvenile delinquency, at the invitation of Dana Cotton, dynamic, multi-titled Harvard administrator. They met one day when Glenn walked into Cotton's office with his son David (now Harvard '68) who was looking the University over...
...flown 159 missions in World War II and Korea and filled in as a test pilot in between discovered the truth of the statistic that most accidents happen in the home. While he was hanging up a mirror in his bathroom, a throwrug slid out from under Glenn and threw his head against the bathtub. The hairline crack in his skull incapacitated his sense of balance for about nine months and probably cost him the title of United States Senator From Ohio...
...much more hellish spectre to Glenn was the possibility of permanent injury. So, characteristically, to put as much stress on himself as possible he flew as often as he could, a sort of kill or cure thereby that proved successful...
...Glenn serves as a consultant for NASA, keeping up with the latest details of the space program (although he ironically stayed up until 1:45 a.m. Thursday night, trying to catch a glimpse of the Mars picture on the wrong television channel.) and does a lot of work for (you guessed it) The Boy Scouts of America, In addition he is on the board of Directors of Royal Crown Cola, "purely as a matter of business, not just PR. I didn't want any part of using my name for advertising...