Word: harvardman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls have in common are English bicycles, guitars and extremely hard work, made harder by their compulsion to do even more than asked. "They go to the library and underline and underline," observes a Radcliffe senior. They are too busy for newspapers and politics: "So there's a Harvardman in the White House, big deal." In their overcrowded dormitories, they get on one another's nerves, and there is "no place...
...Cliffies, attracted by "those Harvard men--and Harvard itself, of course," are "unusually mature as well as fearfully bright." The Time story noted that 66 per cent graduated with honors last June. It also quoted an astonished Harvardman as admitting that "all 'Cliffies are no longer dogs...
...some nice guy's kitchen, he induces poor Holly to give up mattress money for matrimony. As the nice guy, George Peppard scarcely makes the alternative seem attractive -he has that I-went-to-college-but-it-didn't-do-any-good look of the sort of Harvardman who couldn't even get a job in Washington. And Audrey Hepburn, though she plays with fluent wit and gives the customers a spectacular fashion show, isn't really Holly. Holly isn't the sort of girl who wears her rue with a diffidence. Holly...
Died. Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64, intuitive titan of the U.S. aircraft industry, an unmechanical, piano-playing Harvardman (class of '19) who made his first million by the age of 30, blew it manufacturing sport seaplanes, but in 1932 plunked down $40,000 for bankrupt Lockheed Aircraft, which he proceeded to build into the nation's 28th biggest industrial corporation, with 1960 gross sales of $1,332,289,000; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. As chairman and moving spirit of giant Lockheed. Bostonian Gross equipped the armed forces with aircraft and weapons ranging from...
...reader to do a double take. Named as the newest of 91 vice presidents of the bank that, until a 1959 merger, was renowned as the "House of Morgan" was John P. Morgan II, 43, grandson of J. P. Morgan and great-grandson of the great J. Pierpont. A Harvardman (class of 1940) who has been with Morgan's ever since he finished a World War II tour as a subchaser skipper, the latest J. P. is described by colleagues as "a man who doesn't take himself elaborately . . . a working banker whose name happens to be Morgan...