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...decision making-he did not even hold a title at Korvette's until 1955 when, at his bankers' insistence, he invented for himself the job of chairman of the executive committee-Ferkauf delegated to one old friend after another all the time-nibbling detail work. A grammar school chum named Marty Agins has charge of the Westbury, Long Island, store. Joe Zwillenberg became company treasurer. Another executive job went to Abe Goldstein, a fellow Brooklynite whom Ferkauf met on K.P. duty at Camp Crowder, Mo. Recalls Ferkauf: "I was washing dishes, and Abe came over...
Keeping Fit. Snell never walks anywhere if he can run instead. The headmaster of Auckland's Mount Albert Grammar School recalls a day in 1957 when Snell won two matches for the school's tennis team, then played a starring role in a cricket match. A little later, the headmaster found him running around the school track in shorts and T shirt. "What are you doing, Snell?" he asked. "I want to keep fit, sir," the 17-year-old replied...
...noted for his seven-volume text and delightful translation in the Loeb Classical Library of the works of Athenaeums, a Greek antiquarian of the second century A.D. valued especially as a source of quotations from lost authors of the Greek past. His revision of the standard Greek grammar of his teacher continues in use as the Goodwin-Gulick Greek Grammar...
...scholar in comparative literature, served as chairman and only man of the Department of Celtic, and taught a number of courses in Celtic languages and literatures. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1950, and taught at New York University. on early Irish grammar and an edition of an Irish text will keep him busy in Cambridge following his retirement...
...several speeches to academic audiences (the book is a sheaf of speeches and book introductions-the sort of collection that writers publish when they haven't written anything), he makes most of the familiar complaints. The intellectual is homeless; the poet is campus-bound; today's grammar-school education is flaccid; the American is merely a well-trained product buyer who knows, when in Weimar, "how to buy a Weimaraner." JarrelFs lectern jokes are rather good ("People who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks"), but his lamentations over the mass culture...