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...eastern colleges--Harvard especially--soon discovered that expanding westward and also increasing scholarships resulted in multiplying by three or four the number of schools contributing applicants. Harvard was no longer dealing with schools like Exeter, Groton, and Boston Latin, whose headmasters and principals knew well which men the College was looking for. As a result, the Admissions Committee could no longer count so heavily on school recommendations, and it then began to see the need for much more personal interviewing...
Fowler McCormick, after breezing through Groton and Princeton, had joined the company as a $25-a-week factory worker in 1925, worked up through the engineering, accounting and sales departments to a vice presidency in 1934. He was president from 1941 to 1946 when Harvester smoothly shifted to wartime production of armored vehicles, shells and airplane cowlings along with peacetime farm equipment. When he was made chairman five years ago, directors changed the bylaws to let him keep the chief executive powers. McCormick decentralized the company's management, sparkplugged its $150 million postwar expansion, helped boost profits from...
...eastern colleges--Harvard especially--soon discovered that expanding westward and also increasing scholarships resulted in multiplying by three of four the number of schools contributing applicants. Harvard was no longer dealing with schools like Exeter, Groton, and Boston Latin, whose headmasters and principals knew well which men the College was looking for. As a result, the Admissions Committee could no longer count so heavily on school recommendations, and it began to see the need for much more personal interviewing...
Died. Frederic C. Dumaine, 85, one of the sharpest of modern-day Yankee trader capitalists; of bronchial pneumonia; in Groton, Mass. At 14 he went to work for the giant Amoskeag cotton mills (for $4 a week); within a few years he was operating in the fishing business, shipbuilding, watchmaking, steamship lines, truckmaking, banking. His biggest coup came in 1948, when he quietly bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine...
...Elliot; Douglas M. Fouquet, Bayside, N.Y. and Dunster; Peter B. Taub, Larchmont, N.Y. and Lowell; Alvin Becker of Waltham and Adams; Robert E. Tomasello, of Bemont and Dudley; Richard R. Reynolds, Punxsudawney, Penn, and Leverett; Edmund J. Gilake, Jr. of Medford and Dunster; and James F. Draper, of Groton and Kirkland, Arthur H. Rohn, Villa Park, III, and Dunster, and David Harrison, Lakewood, N. J. and Kirkland in the three-way tie for the last position...