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...Three Cs. Like two other famed headmasters of New England prep schools, Peabody of Groton and Coit of St. Paul's, Diman thought the English public schools were on the right tack in stressing classics, character and Christianity. (Dr. Coit, however, was too English for him: "He was such an Anglophile that he wouldn't let the students play baseball; they had to play cricket."*) He was impatient of office routine, and so worded his letters that few required answers. The hours thus saved he spent in meditation...
...Pfizer issued a quarterly report that net income, $553,352 in the first quarter of 1945, had jumped to $2,857,788; earnings were up from $1.10 to $1.94 a share. With $900,000 of this cash, Pfizer last week bought the surplus 30-acre Submarine Victory Yard in Groton, Conn...
...penicillin is still Pfizer's main product (it turns out over one-third of the U.S. output), it is also making the latest wonder drug, streptomycin. But Pfizer feels that streptomycin has a "clouded future," as yet has no plans for mass production. When it gets the new Groton plant in operation, Pfizer expects to double production of its other products...
...After Groton and Yale, tall, handsome William Averell Harriman came face to face with a problem which plagues only the sons of the rich. Should he take a job, or shouldn't he? He had no need of money. He had been obviously out of place during a period he spent as a section hand on his father's Union Pacific Railroad. But he chose the difficult path...
Last week the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, his old boss, announced that Joe Alsop, now 35, of Groton and Harvard, and distant cousin of the late Franklin Roosevelt, would start a new column, beginning Jan. 1. His partner: his 32-year-old brother Stewart, Yale '36, who before the war was an editor for Doubleday, Doran...