Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This decision allowed him to go into History with an enthusiasm stimulated by childhood readings in the historical novels of Henry. He sailed through graduating in 1919, and making Phi Beta Kappa along with his classmate, Professor Gordon Allport. "The modern era with its closeness of instructor and student was beginning to supplant the old one, in which professors were in the main people apart." Another undoubtedly invigorating circumstance was the fact of having Harold Laski for a tutor for three years. "Since I was influenced strongly and simultaneously by Laski and by Irvin Babbitt, who with his theories...
When he doffed his navy uniform, Gordon Kennedy, 40, a breezy storekeeper 3rd class and ex-milk company accountant, had the same ambition as many G.I.s. He wanted to own his own business. In Detroit he found a small, unprofitable dairy ready to sell out for $150,000. Kennedy rounded up some 40 veterans, handed each of them 100 five-dollar certificates exchangeable for milk & dairy products, sent them out to work their selling charms on housewives. This brought...
...ending. While the rest of the U. S. was scrambling for the delights of peace, he was still in uniform, sweating out the end of his hitch, forgotten by everyone but his own family. At Fort Riley, Kansas, TIME Correspondent James Bell spent a day with Corporal Gordon Monson, a big, pink-cheeked 19-year-old from tiny Hoimen, Wis. Correspondent Bell's report...
Though he has never taught a class in his life and has never earned a doctor's degree, Robert Gordon Sproul is president of one of the world's largest universities. He has held the job since 1930, now gets $17,500 a year. Businesswise, back-slapping Bob Sproul (rhymes with jowl) acts like what he is: the capable sales manager for a mammoth educational chain-store (the University of California, with eight campuses, 38,864 students...
Born. To Robert Browne Wallace, 28, lanky son of Editor Henry Agard Wallace, and Gordon Grosvenor Wallace, 28: their first child (Henry Wallace's second grandchild), a daughter; in Philadelphia. Name: Allaire. Weight...