Word: harvardman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anxiety for Action. Harvardman Randall reads a lot and has a good sense of humor (he once suggested that more businessmen might read books if a law were passed prohibiting gin rummy), but he likes to study a serious problem carefully before he sounds off on it. With barely five months in which to make his foreign-trade recommendations, he is painfully anxious to get his trade commission in action...
...hope of a squib for his column, however, O'Hara sat down after getting the lather off his chin and wrote a letter asking what the Senator thought of the new prexy. Harvardman O'Hara expected nothing more than a note saying McCarthy thought Neighbor Pusey was a fine fellow. But to O'Hara's amazement, McCarthy saw Red. He wrote...
...Into the No. 1 spot, replacing ailing President Charles G. Taylor Jr., 69, of the $11.6 billion Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stepped Executive Vice President Frederic W. (for Worral) Ecker, 57, son of former (1929-36) Met President Frederick H. Ecker, 85, now honorary chairman. A Harvardman ('18), poker-faced (and poker-playing) Frederic Ecker won a D.S.C. and Croix de guerre as a World War I infantry lieutenant, tried his hand briefly in the securities business before following in his father's footsteps at Metropolitan...
...sweaty, dirty Harvardman will receive a kiss from a cool, collected, and supposedly calm Wellesley beauty on Sunday...
...Harvardman Conant, himself a graduate of the 308-year-old independent Roxbury Latin School, the "first-rate comprehensive high school" is the ideal for America. "More than one foreign observer has remarked that . . . free schools, where the future doctor, lawyer, professor, politician . . . labor leader and manual worker have studied and played together . . . are an American invention. That such schools should be maintained and made even more democratic and comprehensive seems to me to be essential for the future of this republic...